MALONE — An unconscious driver was pulled from the flaming wreckage of a car Sunday night after a single-car collision, according to the Florida Highway Patrol.
Tameka Williams, 33, was driving a 2013 Nissan Maxima south on State 71 in Malone at about 7:30 p.m. Sunday before she lost consciousness and subsequently lost control of the car, FHP reported in a news release. The Nissan crossed over the northbound lane, jumped the curb and continued to travel off the roadway and across the sidewalk. The left front side of the vehicle crashed through a chain-link fence around a retention pond and continued across the bank of the pond before colliding with another portion of the fence and coming to a rest, FHP reported.
The car then caught fire, but bystanders pulled Williams from the flaming wreckage, the reports stated. FHP did not specify whether a seat belt was in use at the time.
Williams, a Bascom resident, was taken to Flowers Hospital in Dothan, Ala., with serious injuries.
It was unclear Monday as to how Williams became unconscious at the incident’s onset.