Kansas woman injured in accident

Wednesday, July 24, 2013
Emergency services personnel work to get Linda Chaffin strapped onto a backboard before loading her into an ambulance after a rollover accident that happened about five miles north of Nevada on I-49 Friday afternoon. Working from the foot of the gurney to the head is Compton Junction firefighter Paul Harrelson, Nevada firefighters Matt Plumlee and Taylor McKlintic, Assistant Vernon County Ambulance District Director Leland Splitter and Compton Junction firefighter Jason Wilson. Ralph Pokorny/Daily Mail

A Goodland, Kan., woman was injured in a single-vehicle accident that happened on Interstate 49 just south of the Compton Junction exit about 3:30 Friday afternoon.

According to a report by Missouri State Highway Patrol Cpl. James Wilde, Linda Chaffin, 63, received minor injuries when the southbound 2000 Ford Freestyle SUV she was driving ran off the roadway and overturned, coming to rest in the median.

Firefighters used the Jaws of Life to open the top of Chaffin's SUV to free her from the vehicle. She was transported to the Nevada Regional Medical Center by the Vernon County Ambulance District.

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