A Cleveland woman was rushed to the hospital following a single-vehicle wreck early Sunday on Highway 17. The wreck, south of Sautee-Nacoochee, shut down the highway near Medicine Bow Lane for over an hour.
A 911 caller reported the crash at 5111 Hwy. 17 just after midnight on Nov. 3. Responding units arrived to find a Nissan Pathfinder crashed headlong into a tree.
According to the Georgia State Patrol’s preliminary investigation, 32-year-old Brittany Orum was driving south on Hwy. 17 when the Pathfinder ran off the road, traveled down an embankment, and struck a tree.
It took emergency personnel about 20 minutes to free Orum from the wreckage, according to Habersham County Public Information Officer Rob Moore.
Habersham EMS transported Orum by ambulance to Northeast Georgia Medical Center Gainesville for treatment.
Troopers with Georgia State Patrol Post 7 in Toccoa investigated the wreck.
The road reopened at 1:42 a.m., according to Moore.
Multiple weekend wrecks
Sunday’s wreck was the latest in a string of automobile accidents on local roadways over the weekend.
Public safety officials responded to several accidents on Nov. 1, including a serious injury wreck on GA 255 outside Batesville, a single-vehicle crash on GA 365, and a two-vehicle collision at the J Warren Road intersection.
A rollover wreck early Sunday, Nov. 3, on GA 197 North temporarily shut down the highway, but according to deputies, no one was injured.
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