Tampa woman in serious condition after SUV spins, flips near I-4
TAMPA -- A 40-year-old Tampa woman is in serious condition this morning after she was ejected from her SUV on Hillsborough Avenue, according to the Florida Highway Patrol.
Gigi Laneda Bratcher, 40, was driving a 1995 Isuzu westbound across the Interstate 4 overpass when she lost control about 12:45 a.m., a crash report states. Her SUV drove over the grassy median and the I-4 exit ramp before smashing into a barrier wall, spinning a half turn and flipping. Bratcher was thrown through her windshield and onto the I-4 shoulder.
Bratcher remains at Tampa General Hospital this morning. The crash was not alcohol-related, a trooper wrote.
Drew Harwell, Times staff writer
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Talking on her cell phone!
Posted by: jon | Friday, April 03, 2009 at 09:50 AM
Seat belts anyone?
Posted by: jp | Friday, April 03, 2009 at 11:04 AM
Sudden
Urge for
Violence
Posted by: chopper | Friday, April 03, 2009 at 11:21 AM
If the accident was not alcohol related, why was her BAC approximately .2% and was positive for drugs???
Posted by: the knowing | Friday, April 03, 2009 at 11:44 AM
perhaps it truly was an accident....you people are the biggest axxhxxxx. Maybe she was at the hospital visiting a dying grandmother, maybe she was tending to an ill child and running to the drugstore...grow up and clean your own backyard first don't be so damn ignorant!!!!
Posted by: k | Friday, April 03, 2009 at 04:59 PM
Believe me for as many police reports as I have seen I could about assure you if the police report said it is not alcohol relatde she was drunk as a skunk!
Posted by: whodathunkit | Sunday, April 05, 2009 at 09:31 PM