LOCAL 648
car breaks through 4th-floor barrier in garage,
Posted On: Jun 22, 2009

Woman mistakenly puts car in reverse, breaks through 4th-floor barrier in Springfield garage, and plunges roof-first onto Dwight Street

by The Republican Newsroom
Monday June 22, 2009, 10:30 PM

Springfield fire and ambulance personnel removed a woman from her car after the car plunged from the fourth floor of a parking garage on Monday afternoon, landing on its roof on Dwight Street near Hillman Street.

SPRINGFIELD - A woman accidentally put her car into reverse, sending it through a metal barrier and out of the fourth floor of a parking garage on Dwight Street near Hillman Street on Monday afternoon, police said.

The 2008 Hyundai Sonata landed on its roof onto the pavement below.

The driver, a woman in her mid-20s whom police did not identify, was being treated for non-life-threatening injuries on Monday night at Baystate Medical Center, police said. She was wearing a seat belt, police said.

Springfield fire and ambulance personel work to remove a woman from her car after the car plunged from the fourth floor of a parking garage and landed on its roof on Dwight Street near Hillman Street.


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IAFF Local 648
33 Eastland St.
Springfield, MA
 

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