Officials searched for almost four hours early this morning for a woman who crashed her car, became disoriented and only had sporadic use of a cell phone.

Sharon McBride, 53, traveled eight to 10 miles past Goodson Road, where she lives after becoming disoriented, Higway Patrol Sgt. S. F. Small said.

McBride drove straight at a sharp curve on Cool Springs Road and traveled 182 feet into the woods. Her car struck a tree and came to rest 12 feet later, according to the crash report.

McBride suffers from severe diabetes, and Rowan County Rescue Squad Chief Coyt Karriker said that condition may have made her disoriented.

An hour after she should have been home, she called her husband with her cell phone and told him she had been in an accident, Karriker said.

A search began between the Woodleaf Road area, the last place McBride said she remembered passing, and her home on Goodson Road.

She was on her way home when she wrecked her car, Karriker said. “She told him she remembered passing the green houses and the church on Woodleaf Road,” Karriker said.

’he cell phone lost its connection. McBride then called 911 and received Davie County Communications. She told dispatchers the same information.

Fortunately, Karriker said, 911 was able to trace her phone number. During the entire four-hour search, Davie County 911 tried to recall McBride’s cell phone and she tried to call them, but the connection was too bad.

She was pinned in the vehicle by the dashboard, and she said she couldn’t honk her horn because the air bag deployed.

Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center sent their helicopter to aid the search, and a Locke Fire Department volunteer flew along using the department’s heat-sensing equipment to search.

“We just decided to broaden the search,” Karriker said.

As a Rescue Squad truck made its first pass up Cool Springs Road, driver Marty Seamon and sister-in-law Jennifer Seamon spotted the vehicle.

“ ‘I’ve been looking for you,’ she told them and he said, ‘I’ve been looking for you too,’ ” Karriker said.

McBride wasn’t seriously injured.