Three injured in two crashes on Whitley roads Tuesday afternoon

An elderly Whitley County woman was severely injured Tuesday afternoon in a single vehicle crash on Hwy. 26 in Woodbine, and police and witnesses say a medical condition may be to blame for the accident.
Edna Moses, of Hwy. 92 West, was driving erratically while traveling south on Hwy. 26 before she dropped a tire off the right shoulder of the road and slammed into an embankment.
“I was behind her around Pennington Block Company (in Corbin) and she just about hit a car then,” said Billy Centers, of Pleasant View, who was driving behind her before the crash. “She must have been fighting consciousness or something. I slowed up, then when I came around the curve and got here, there she was … she was already in the ditch.
Kentucky State Police Trooper Jason VanHook, who is investigating the accident, said Moses likely dropped a tire off the road in an area where the roadway drops off into a creek.
“It looks like it pulled her off and she hit the embankment,” VanHook said. “A witness said he thought there was something wrong with her … that she was traveling all over the road. I’m not really sure what happened yet.”
Moses’ 1989 Oldsmobile Eighty-Eight came to rest nose down in a deep ditch just before the entrance to the old county landfill. EMS personnel requested that Moses be flown out by helicopter to a larger regional hospital, but flight services refused due to weather conditions.
Centers said he tried to help Moses but that she was totally unresponsive when he looked into the vehicle.
“We hollered at her and everything she couldn’t respond.”
It appeared Moses suffered a head injury from the crash, but the extent of her injuries were not available at press time. She was transported to Baptist Regional Medical Center for treatment.
Members of the Woodbine Volunteer Fire Department assisted at the scene.