PRESS OF ATLANTIC CITY (Pleasantville, New Jersey) 20 June 07 Woman wrecks car to save turtle (Michael Miller)

Upper Township: An errant turtle caused a single-car accident Tuesday that sent a Cape May woman to the hospital.

State Police in the Bass River Township barracks said Saranne Goldinger, 65, of Cape May, was driving north on the Garden State Parkway at about 3:25 p.m. Tuesday when she swerved to avoid hitting a turtle that was crossing at mile marker 21.5.

Goldinger's four-door sedan left the parkway, plowed through a guard rail, hurtled down an embankment and rolled onto its roof.

Goldinger was taken by Upper Township Rescue Squad to AtlantiCare Regional Medical Center, City Campus, where she was treated for non-life-threatening injuries, police said. Goldinger was wearing a seat belt, police said.

Motorists trailing Goldinger came to her assistance. The vehicle suffered extensive damage, police said.

That part of the parkway is heavily wooded and is home to many animals, such as raccoons that occasionally cross into traffic.

“You don't get too many turtles. Mainly deer,” Trooper Scott Farkas said.

Despite Goldinger's efforts, things did not go any better for the turtle Tuesday. A car trailing Goldinger's flattened it, Farkas said.

“All of that for nothing,” he said.



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