News short: Driver passes out, hits sign post

A woman driving northbound on State Street through LaVerkin passed out and crashed into a sign post, LaVerkin, Utah, Feb. 10 | Photo courtesy of the LaVerkin Police Department, St. George News
A woman driving northbound on State Street through LaVerkin passed out and crashed into a sign post, LaVerkin, Utah, Feb. 10 | Photo courtesy of the LaVerkin Police Department, St. George News
A woman driving northbound on State Street through LaVerkin passed out and crashed into a sign post, LaVerkin, Utah, Feb. 10 | Photo courtesy of the LaVerkin Police Department, St. George News

LAVERKIN – A woman was taken to the hospital after her car crashed into a billboard Monday morning.

Around 11:40 a.m., a 60-year-old woman driving northbound at around 200 North State Street lost consciousness and veered across all lanes of traffic. Her car then left the roadway, crashed through a fence, and impacted against a billboard sign pole, LaVerkin Police Detective Travis Romney said.

Emergency responders got the woman out of the wrecked car and she was taken to Dixie Regional Medical Center in St. George with non-life threatening injuries, Romney said. A 2-year-old child was also in the car, strapped into a car seat in the back seat. The child was unharmed.

This report is based on preliminary information provided by the authorities and may not contain the full scope of findings.

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A woman driving northbound on State Street through LaVerkin passed out and crashed into a sign post, LaVerkin, Utah, Feb. 10 | Photo courtesy of the LaVerkin Police Department, St. George News
A woman driving northbound on State Street through LaVerkin passed out and crashed into a sign post, LaVerkin, Utah, Feb. 10 | Photo courtesy of the LaVerkin Police Department, St. George News

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2 Comments

  • DB February 11, 2014 at 3:28 pm

    1) I hope the lady will be OK 2) So THAT’S what child car seats are for!

    • JW February 11, 2014 at 8:56 pm

      It was my mother and she was released from the hospital today and is bruised and a broken rib

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