Wednesday, May 28, 1997
Hamby woman seriously injured in accident
By TANYA EISERER / Abilene Reporter-News
A Hamby woman was seriously injured Tuesday afternoon after
her riding lawnmower was hit head-on by an out-of-control vehicle.
Julia Ruth Baker, 56, was taken to Hendrick Medical Center
with a broken leg and multiple abrasions. She was listed in stable
condition Tuesday night.
Department of Public Safety Trooper Max Shaw said a Ford Bronco
driven by Suzy Ann Whitehead careened into Baker's yard and hit
her head-on. The force of the accident caused Baker to bounce
up and off the riding lawnmower and into Whiteheard's windshield,
Shaw said.
The accident, Shaw said, was apparently caused when Whitehead,
27, looked down to adjust her radio near the intersection of county
roads 521 and 520.
"When she looked up, she saw that she was fixing to hit
a mailbox" on the right side of the road, he said.
Whitehead whipped her car to the left trying to avoid the mailbox,
but she hit it anyway, Shaw said.
"She gripped the steering wheel and just closed her eyes,"
he said. "She just kind of froze. She didn't hit the gas,
the brakes or anything."
After driving through a patch of mesquite trees and hitting
Baker, Whitehead's vehicle finally came to rest, with the lawnmower
engine wedged underneath it, about 30 to 40 yards from the road.
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