A driver who took her eyes off the road to grab something was at fault in Tuesday’s three-vehicle crash in east Santa Rosa, according to Santa Rosa police.
“She got distracted, looking down to reach for something on the floorboard or seat and ended up crossing over the double yellow lines,” said Santa Rosa traffic Sgt. Summer Black.
New Santa Rosa resident Kimberley Grindell, 51, had been headed east on Montgomery Drive at the speed limit when her Subaru moved into the westbound lane. “She hit one car coming toward her, ricocheted off that car and hit a second vehicle, then ricocheted down the embankment,” Black said.
The Subaru was stopped short of a rushing creek when the vehicle’s back end jammed into the crook of a large oak tree, trapping the woman.
The 2:45 p.m. crash closed the busy road. Santa Rosa firefighters broke out the windshield and helped the woman out and up a ladder to the roadway. Grindell, who recently moved to Santa Rosa from Alaska, had minor injuries and was taken to Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital, Black said. The second driver wasn’t injured and the third driver had minor injuries.
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