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Sylva woman is critically injured in one-vehicle accident near Burger King
By Carey Phillips
A Sylva woman remains in critical condition after a one-vehicle accident Sunday on N.C. 107 just outside the Sylva city limits.
Bonnie Rowe, 31, of Travelers Nest, was a patient in the neurotrauma intensive care unit at Mission Hospitals in Asheville as of Tuesday afternoon.
The accident occurred around 2:20 p.m. just south of Burger King.
Rowe was traveling south in a 2001 Ford Explorer when she ran off the right shoulder, came back across the highway and struck a concrete median, according to Trooper Denny Wood of the N.C. Highway Patrol. The vehicle overturned twice and as it turned over a third time, Rowe was ejected and thrown 41 feet into the outside northbound lane, Wood said. The Explorer turned over two more times before coming to rest in the inside northbound lane, he said.
She was taken to Harris Regional Hospital and airlifted to Mission.
Rowe was charged with driving while impaired, driving while license revoked and not wearing a seat belt, Wood said.
A dog in the Explorer was not injured, Wood said.
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