By JOHN M. HOOBER III, Staff
Four young adults were injured and taken to Hershey Medical Center when a car overturned late Sunday night on Route 441, north of Marietta.
The driver, Jodi Speakman, 23, of Falmouth Road, Bainbridge, is in serious condition from the 11:06 p.m. crash, a Hershey spokesman reported today.
One passenger, Cynthia Cooper, 19, of Elizabethtown, is in critical condition. Two other passengers, John Flanagan, Harrisburg, and Dwight Swauger, 21, Elizabethtown, were treated and released, the spokesman said.
Speakman was driving north on River Road (Route 441) in East Donegal Township. Near the intersection of Vinegar Ferry Road, she apparently became distracted and took her eyes off the road when a backseat passenger said something to her, a Susquehanna Regional police spokesman said.
The car went off the right side of the road. When the driver tried to regain control and steer back onto the road, she apparently overcompensated and the car rolled over, police said.
Firefighters from Maytown, Bainbridge, Mount Joy, Wrightsville and Marietta responded, along with three area ambulance crews, rescue helicopters and police.
The crash, which remains under investigation by Susquehanna Regional police and the Northwest Regional Crash Team, closed Route 441 from Vinegar Ferry Road to Depot Road.
Staff writer John M. Hoober III can be reached at jhoober@LNPnews.com or 481-6027.
