Car goes off embankment at Highway 101 exit near Sequim

Rescue workers pull up an injured woman who drove her Toyota Land Cruiser down a 60-foot blackberry-covered hill off the Sequim Avenue exit off U.S. Highway 101 on Friday afternoon. Joe Smillie/Peninsula Daily News

Rescue workers pull up an injured woman who drove her Toyota Land Cruiser down a 60-foot blackberry-covered hill off the Sequim Avenue exit off U.S. Highway 101 on Friday afternoon. Joe Smillie/Peninsula Daily News

SEQUIM — An unidentified woman was taken to Olympic Medical Center last week after the SUV she was driving went off an embankment at the Sequim Avenue exit of U.S. Highway 101.

Rescue crews from Clallam County Fire District No. 3 on Friday afternoon used rope and other equipment to retrieve the injured woman from the blackberry-covered hill after her Toyota Land Cruiser drove down the 60-foot embankment.

State Patrol troopers who responded to the scene did not identify the woman, whose condition was not available Saturday.

No word on what caused the SUV to drive down the hill was available Saturday.

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