Teen's Car Veers Off Bridge, Falls On Highway Below
By Holly Wagner, WCCO-TV
By Adam Carter, NewsRadio 830 WCCO
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) -- A teenage girl escaped with minor injuries Tuesday morning after her vehicle went off a bridge and onto a busy highway below.
According to the State Patrol, the 16-year old girl was on County Road 38 in Apple Valley when she lost control, traveled up a snow bank, went off the bridge and landed on Highway 77.
The car, on its roof, was partially in the southbound lanes of traffic. Thankfully, no one below was hit.
"One can only imagine driving down the road and seeing a vehicle come off the bridge," said Lt. Eric Roeske of the Minnesota State Patrol. "It certainly could have been a much worse situation."
Troopers say when they got to the scene, the teen was trapped in her car. Roeske says a state trooper was able to free her, but the window had to be smashed in order to pull her out. She told troopers her neck hurt.
She was hospitalized with non-life threatening injuries. Roeske says her seat belt is what stopped the accident from being worse.
Roeske says there was snow piled up along the guard wall, and that acted like a ramp, allowing the vehicle to go up and over the wall.
The girl is a student at East View High School.
Newsradio 830 WCCO's Adam Carter talked with Lieutenant Roeske about the accident.
