SALISBURY — Robin Hayes, flown to Carolinas Medical Center in Charlotte last Thursday after she lost control of her car and drove under an 18-wheeler, is in fair condition.
The rear tandems of the trailer ran over the driver’s side door, and then completely detached from the trailer.
According to Highway Partrol officer C.J. Doty and the witnesses, Hayes, 34, was in the right-hand southbound lane of exit 68 and ran off the shoulder. A witness told Doty the car jerked to the left and drove under the 18-wheeler. The rear tandems of the trailer went right over her, and the impact sent her back into the exit ramp, Doty said.
The driver of the tractor-trailer truck, Gabriel Medina, 42 and of Texas, was able to keep control of the truck and trailer, moving to the shoulder of I-85. The trailer drug for about a quarter of a mile, and left nearly 1-inch indentions in the road.
Hayes’ legs were pinned underneath the dash of her four-door Oldsmobile Aurora. Emergency responders had to cut the driver’s side door off, the roof of the car, and cut the dash in half to get Hayes out of the car and to the hospital.