Published February 14. 2013 05:02PM
A Carbon County woman was seriously injured Wednesday morning when she was apparently run over by her own car in her driveway. The incident occurred about 10:30 a.m. when a mail carrier reported finding the woman trapped under the front axle and wheels of her car in front of her home along Broad Mountain View Drive about a half mile west of Behrens Road. Members of the Penn Forest Fire Companies No.1 and No. 2 raced to the scene to free the driver. The victim, identified as Dorothy Ney, 68, of the 100 block of Broad Mountain View, was treated at the scene by Lehighton paramedics before being flown by MedEvac helicopter to the Lehigh Valley Hospital Trauma Center in Allentown. State police are investigating the incident. Ney reportedly is in stable condition at the hospital.
LARRY NEFF/SPECIAL TO THE TIMES NEWS A Carbon County woman was seriously injured Wednesday morning when she was apparently run over by her own car in her driveway. The incident occured about 10:30 a.m. when a mail carrier reported finding the woman trapped under the front axle and wheels of her car in front of her home along Broad Mountain View Drive about a half mile west of Behrens Road. Members of the Penn Forest Fire Companies No.1 and No. 2 raced to the scene to free the driver. The victim, identified as Dorothy Ney, 68, of the 100 block of Broad Mountain View, was treated at the scene by Lehighton paramedics before being flown by MedEvac helicopter to the Lehigh Valley Hospital Trauma Center in Allentown. State police are investigating the incident. Ney reportedly is in stable condition at the hospital.