Driver injured when SUV crashes into hospital
NEWPORT, Ore. -- A driver crashed her SUV into a hospital and damaged the building only to be pulled from the wreckage and taken to the same hospital for treatment.
Investigators believe driver Ronda Williams lost control of her Honda SUV, crashed into a parked car and then hit the hospital building, damaging the building in four different places.
Police responded to a call just after 6:01 p.m. from a witness who saw a vehicle driving erratically north across the Yaquina Bay Bridge in Newport, Ore. The witness followed the vehicle as it turned onto SW 9th Street and crashed into the west side of Samaritan Pacific Communities Hospital.
Officers arrived on scene and found a 1997 Honda SUV trapped between a steel hand rail and the hospital building. Fire, ambulance and hospital crews responded and helped rescue driver Williams from the wreckage.
She was transported to Samaritan Pacific for treatment. Newport police did not know the extent of her injuries, but said Williams was later transported to Good Samaritan Regional Medical Center in Corvallis, Ore.
Anyone with information regarding the crash is asked to contact Officer Jerry Howe at (541) 574-3348.
