Clara Scercy lost control of her 1999 Ford on a patch of ice on Moose Road and and ended up in a field, according to N.C. Highway Patrol Trooper J.W. Abernathy.

Scercy, 68, of Lentz Road, walked out into the road to talk to a dump truck operator who stopped to assist her.

Trooper Abernathy described Scercy as standing on the yellow lines beside the stopped truck headed north. “When they finished, she (Scercy) started back to her car” across the southbound lane, Abernathy said. Cathy Binns of Rockwell, traveling in the southbound lane, saw Scercy and a patch of ice in front of her 1993 Plymouth.

“She (Binns) applied the breaks and started sliding,” Abernathy said.

At the same time, Scercy was trying to get out of the road but lost her footing on the same patch of ice. The car struck her while she was still standing up.

Scercy was taken to NorthEast Medical Center and later to Carolinas Medical Center where she is in serious condition.

Abernathy said Binns does not face charges.

Two other weather related accidents can be attributed to patches of ice and unsafe speeds.

On Tuesday around 1:30, two vehicles collided on Enochville School Road.

Trooper K.D. Cagler investigated the accident and said Juanita Pressley, 21, of 8097 Long Brian Drive, Kannapolis, hit an ice patch, lost control of her 1991 Ford and hit another car head-on.

Michelle Hosch, 370 Imperial Drive, Salisbury, the driver of the other vehicle, managed to come to a complete stop before Pressley hit her Honda.

Pressley was charged with exceeding safe speed for conditions, and Hosch was charged with improper child restraint. No one was seriously injured.

Officials also blamed patchy ice and speed for an accident later that day on Bringle Ferry Road.

Randy Lowman, 37, 2460 Agner Road, was charged with exceeding safe speed after his 1979 Chevy pickup ran off the road and down an embankment.

Lowman’s 9-year-old daughter, Courtney, was pinned by her arm under the truck.

Rescue workers were able to free Courtney Lowman, and she was treated at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center and released.

Lowman’s 7-year-old daughter, Katie, also was riding in the truck but escaped seriously injured.

Many roads in the eastern part of Rowan County are still blotched with ice. “It’s not gone yet,” Trooper Cagler said.