It’s safer to hit an animal on the road than to swerve to miss it.
That’s the word from Indiana State Trooper Jarrod Lents after yesterday’s 10-am crash on I69 at the 56 mile marker in Daviess County.
He reports that 31-year-old Kaylee Jo Lashbrook was southbound in a 2009 Toyota Matrix when she says a dog appeared in the road. She swerved to miss it and the vehicle went off the road and across the median into the northbound lanes of the interstate. The car then went up an embankment and came to rest 50 feet from the road. The front end of the car sustained extensive damage from going through the median and over large rocks on the roadside.
Lashbrook was taken to Daviess Community Hospital with non life threatening injuries.
Lents says more injuries and damage when drivers try to avoid a collision with an animal than hit the animal itself, especially when traveling at Interstate speeds.
