Crime & Safety
Woman Injured in Rolling Car Accident on Tunitas Creek Road
A 75-year-old woman tried to reach through an open window to stop her car from rolling down a steep slope but was dragged about 12 feet.
By Bay City News Service
A 75-year-old woman was injured when her vehicle rolled down a steep slope and dragged her in unincorporated San Mateo County on Monday, a California Highway Patrol spokesman said today.
The accident was reported at about 8:15 a.m. on Tunitas Creek Road near state Highway 35, in the area of the Tunitas Creek Open Space Preserve.
At first it was reported that a pedestrian was hit by a vehicle, which went down an embankment on Tunitas Creek Road.
Turns out it the pedestrian was the woman who exited her car to open a gate on a roadside property and the vehicle started to roll away, CHP spokesman Officer Art Montiel said.
She tried to reach through an open window to stop it but was dragged about 12 feet, Montiel said.
The woman eventually dislodged herself from the car before it continued moving, broke through the gate and rolled across Tunitas Creek Road and 300 feet down an embankment, Montiel said.
The woman suffered moderate leg and back injuries in the accident.
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