Glenn County Observer
An Orland woman escaped injury after her vehicle plunged into the Glenn-Colusa Canal near the intersection of Highways 32 and 45 in Hamilton City Tuesday afternoon.
According to the California Highway Patrol, at about 4:10 p.m. on April 12, Tami J. Thomson, 61, of Orland, was driving a 2004 Chevrolet east on Highway 32, approaching Highway 45 at an unknown speed.
For an unknown reason, the Chevy veered to the right onto the gravel shoulder and collided with multiple posts.
The Chevy continued in an easterly direction, traveling down an embankment and coming to rest in the waters of the Glenn-Colusa Canal.
Law enforcement broadcasts picked up on police scanners indicated that the woman could not get out of her vehicle on her own.
Broadcasts indicated that a road work crew came to her aid and began helping her to escape even before emergency responders arrived at the scene.
According to CHP Officer Vasquez, Thomson was wearing her seatbelts at the time of the accident and was not injured.
However, she was transported to Enloe Medical Center in Chico, apparently as a precaution.
Neither drugs nor alcohol was thought to be a factor in this accident.
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