SANDERS COUNTY - Approximately at 11:30am on Tuesday March 31,  a call came out for Plains and Sanders County first responders to respond to a car crash on Lower Lynch Road outside of Plains.

A female occupant had driven off the road and cleared much of the hill along side the road and ended in a ditch. She cleared a fence and small brush on the hillside.

According to Larry Neilson, a member of the Plains Community Ambulance and one of the first on the scene, the Plains Community Ambulance, Plains/Paradise Rural Fire Department, Sanders County Search and Rescue all responded to the scene. Neilson said that search and rescue were called because of the steep hill and the possible need for ropes and extra equipment to rescue the female from the hillside. He then said that she was far enough down the hill that the rural fire department was able to do the extrication.

Neilson explained he cannot give out the extent of the victim’s injuries, but he did say that she was put on the backboard as a precaution for any possible spinal injuries and that he was on the ambulance that took her to the Clark Fork Valley Hospital.