A Tamaqua area woman was able to crawl out of the rear of her hatchback Monday after her car rolled over in a parking lot located to the rear of the Tamaqua police station on East Broad Street.

Driver Marge "Midge" Derr of New England Valley had just finished her shift at a Tamaqua supermarket and was driving near the Tamaqua Municipal Building about 2:30 p.m. when her vehicle flipped.

Derr said the incident happened fast and she was unable to see a low, two-foot high protective bollard next to the roadway. The bollard is a protective steel stump that keeps vehicles from dropping into a steep, low ramp once used to drive Jeeps into the lower level of the building, the former Tamaqua Armory.

The sun was very bright and shining into windshields at the time.

"She was coming this way (southbound) and her front tire hit," said Police Chief Rick Weaver.

The street is a borough-owned, unnamed driveway and parking lot, according to Borough Manager Kevin Steigerwalt.

The airbags in Derr's 2011 Ford Escape deployed and the vehicle sustained significant damage from rolling over.