Ohio woman thrown from card in I-75 crash near Corbin

 An Ohio woman is in stable condition at the University of Kentucky Medical Center after she was ejected from a car on I-75 Saturday night.

Twenty-nine-year-old Sarah Lowe of Toledo was airlifted from the scene of the single-vehicle crash on southbound I-75 near the 24-mile marker.

According to Corbin Police Major Rob Jones, the department’s public affairs officer, Lowe was a passenger in the Pontiac G6 sedan, driven by 26-year-old Cliff Laquatra of White House, Ohio. Laquatra told police that he was travelling south just after 10 a.m., when a tire blew out. The car bounced off the center cable barrier, crossed both lanes of traffic and into the embankment off of the right shoulder. The car flipped, ejecting Lowe.

“She was asleep in the passenger seat when it happened,” Jones said.

Southbound I-75 was closed to traffic for nearly an hour as a helicopter was brought into fly Lowe to UK and emergency personnel worked to clear the scene.

Jones said neither drugs nor alcohol were factors in the wreck.

Corbin Police, Corbin Fire Department, Kentucky State Police, Oak Grove Fire Department and Whitley County EMS responded to the scene.