A Catawba County woman was seriously injured in a wreck Friday morning.
Angela Trujillo, 44, was driving her 14-year-old son to school at Bunker Hill High School at about 7:30 a.m. when she lost control of her car and crashed, according to N.C. Highway Patrol reports. She was airlifted to Carolinas Medical Center in Charlotte.
Trujillo was driving about 70 mph in a 55 mph zone along Riverbend Road north of Claremont in her 2007 Chevy Cobalt when she went off the side of the road, struck a culvert and the car went airborne, said Trooper T.R. Hedrick.
Witnesses reported the Cobalt came through a turn sideways and was fishtailing right before it crossed the centerline, overcorrected, ran off the side of the road and crashed, Hedrick said.
She was ejected from the vehicle and the car landed on her, the trooper said. Hedrick said she was not wearing her seatbelt at the time of the accident, but her son was.
Catawba County EMS crews found Trujillo pinned under the upright car and her son injured in the front passenger seat. They transported him to Catawba Valley Medical Center and he was later airlifted to Carolinas Medical Center.
The road was dry at the time of the wreck, according to witnesses.
Pending charges against Trujillo include exceeding a safe speed, failure to wear a seatbelt, driving left of the centerline and exceeding the posted speed limit, said Hedrick.
Information on Trujillo's condition was not made available by the hospital.
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