Driver injured when car rolls down embankment

Published 11:04 pm Friday, October 24, 2008

EVERETT — A car rolled down a 50-foot embankment Friday evening, landing on its wheels a foot away from a mobile home.

Medics were called to the scene at 128th Street SW west of Eighth Avenue W. at about 6:30 p.m., Snohomish County Fire District 1 Battalion Chief Scott Schroeder said.

The vehicle was going eastbound on 128th Street SW when it veered off the roadway, nearly striking a pedestrian, and travelled some 50 feet down the brush-covered slope, Schroeder said.

He said the car rolled over at least once, but ended up back on its wheels literally a foot away from a mobile home.

The driver, who is a female in her 40s, was taken to a hospital with minor injuries, Schroeder said.

No one else was hurt.

The driver was possibly reaching for something in her car before the vehicle went down the embankment, Schroeder said.