Reserve Police Officer Critically Injured in Tennessee Wreck

Paula J. “P.J.” Lindahl, a 56-year-old woman from Maryville, was injured after her vehicle veered off Andy Harris Road, traveled approximately 50 feet down an embankment, bounced off a tree and flipped on its side.

Lindahl had been driving a 2000 Toyota pickup truck heading east on Andy Harris Road, near Wildwood Road.  As she was negotiating a curve, her truck ran off the right side of the road, according to Marian O’Briant, public information officer for the Blount County Sheriff’s Office.

O’Briant said that Lindahl had overcorrected her truck, went back into the westbound lane, overcorrected a second time and then drove off the right side of the road.  The truck fell about 50 feet down a bluff and struck a tree.

“The vehicle bounced off the tree, went airborne to the left and did a nose dive straight down.  The vehicle flipped over on its side,” said O’Briant.

Firefighters from Blount County had to cut the top off Lindahl’s vehicle to get her out.  She was carried in a Stokes basket to the top of the hill.  Lindahl was the only one in the truck at the time of the accident.

O’Briant reported that Lindahl was wearing her seat belt at the time of the crash and that both airbags deployed from the impact.

The Tennessee car wreck is being investigated by the Blount County Sheriff’s Office Traffic Safety Unit Crash Team.

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