The [Henderson] Daily Dispatch
CREEDMOOR -- A 23-year-old Oxford woman on Friday evening was in serious condition at Duke University Medical Center after being injured earlier in the day in a one-vehicle wreck on N.C. 50 on the Granville County side of the Granville-Wake county line.
Erin Gore, who was not wearing a seatbelt, suffered a blackout while driving a 2006 Chevrolet Equinox north on the hilly, two-lane highway between Old N.C. 21 and Beaver Dam Road, state Trooper Mitchell Gordy told the Dispatch.
The vehicle went to the left of center and off the pavement, Gore came to, overcorrected, the vehicle overturned and Gore was ejected, Gordy said. "She ended up in the roadway" and the vehicle went to the right and came to rest upright in a ditch, Gordy said.
"She's got some pretty severe injuries" to her head, neck, back and ribs, along with lacerations and road rash, Gordy said.
No one with Gore in the car, Gordy said.
The vehicle was totaled, with the airbags having not deployed because there was no frontal impact, Gordy said.
Gordy said he was citing Gore, of 604 E. Spring St., for careless and reckless driving and for failing to wear a seatbelt.
Gordy, who received the call at 12:27 p.m., said that the highway was completely closed for probably half an hour and that one lane remained closed for probably another half an hour.
