Cape woman hospitalized following multi-vehicle crash
A Cape Coral woman was sent the hospital over the weekend after a multi-vehicle crash.
Cape police reported that Cloie Jane Hall, 75, was driving a Chevrolet Cruz east on Veterans Parkway Saturday in the inside left-hand turn lane when she tried to turn north onto Santa Barbara Boulevard at 1:01 p.m. She failed to yield the right of way to the vehicles headed west on Veterans.
Hall turned into the path of a Toyota Sienna traveling in the inside straight-through lane. According to police, the right front of the Toyota collided into the right rear passenger door of the Chevrolet as a result.
Following the impact, Hall’s car rotated clockwise into the path of a Lexus RX 350 in the outside straight-through lane. The right front of the Lexus SUV collided into the driver’s door of the Chevrolet.
Officials noted that the westbound vehicles had a green light for their direction of travel.
After the second collision, the Chevrolet rotated clockwise again, next rolling into a Lexus GS 350 stopped in the southbound lanes of Santa Barbara for the red light. The fronts of the vehicles collided.
According to police, a motorcyclist who was also stopped in the southbound lanes of Santa Barbara saw Hall’s Chevrolet heading toward him. He dropped his motorcycle on its side and stepped out of the way to avoid being hit. The car came to a final stop on the motorcycle as it lay in the road.
Hall was trauma-alerted to Lee Memorial Hospital for a possible life-threatening injury.
Officials reported that she had been discharged from the hospital as of Tuesday.
Neither the driver of the Toyota, Ismail Akeblersane, 53, of Fort Myers, nor the driver of the Lexus SUV, Thomas L. Kruckmeyer, 77, of the Cape, reported sustaining any injuries in the accident.
The driver of the Lexus GS 350, Miguel A. Silva, 51, and his passenger, a 3-year-old boy, both of Cape Coral, also reported no injuries, as well as the motorcyclist, Ryan J. Brooks, 40, of North Fort Myers.
According to police, the crash is not alcohol or drug related.