RENO, Nev. (News 4 & Fox 11) — A Reno woman claims a temporary road patch caused her car to roll over, leaving her with injuries and a totaled vehicle. Debi Vidal said she was driving west on Moya Blvd. near Red Rock Road in Stead in mid-June when her car hit two rough patch jobs.
Vidal was traveling at 40 miles per hour, five miles under the speed limit, when she felt her car begin to sway. “And all of a sudden I felt my car going side to side and so I tried to gain control and you heard all the screeching and then it was probably, it was at least 100 more feet where I skid across into oncoming traffic and found myself upside down in the desert,” she said.
Her 1997 Subaru ended up on an embankment, upside down. Vidal reported suffering bruises, a concussion, a back injury and other injuries from the crash.
“I think it’s terrible, horrible, awful. I think it could have killed me. I think that it could kill someone else,” Vidal said…