Ascutney, VT : Women injured and in critical condition following a rollover crash that happened on Route 131 on Monday September 15th 2014

A Cornish, N.H., resident was listed in critical condition Monday following a rollover crash that happened shortly before noon on Route 131 in Ascutney. Lillian Hodgdon, 82, was heading east on Route 131 when she came into a slight downgrade and failed to negotiate a left-hand curve just past the intersection with South Mountain Road, Vermont State Police Cpl. Mike Sorensen reported. Sorensen said Hodgdon’s 2013 Nissan Rogue went off the right side of the pavement, struck the edge of a driveway, “became airborne, crossed the driveway and rolled end-over-end” before eventually coming to rest upside down in a grassy field belonging to the Dragon Farm. “It rolled at least twice and ended up on its roof,” Ascutney Fire Chief Darrin Spaulding explained, adding, “We did have to extricate her with rescue tools. She had some cuts on her legs and face and hands but she was conscious and alert and talking to us.” “I’m pretty sure she didn’t have her seat belt on because she was against the window when we cut the (driver’s side) door off,” Spaulding said. “It was a straightforward extrication. We put her on a backboard and carried her up over the bank and (Golden Cross Ambulance) took her right to Springfield Hospital.” Later in the afternoon Hodgdon was transferred by helicopter to the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon, N.H., where a nursing supervisor said she was listed in critical condition early Monday evening. Sorensen said that neither alcohol nor speed appeared to have been involved, but he said that Hodgdon’s apparent failure to wear her seat belt “may have increased the severity of her injuries”. Source : Woman injured in crash