A car

careened through 70 feet of fencing before it rolled over on its driver’s side

at around 2:45 p.m. today on Beechnut

Avenue, just west of Tracy Boulevard.

The fire department used the “jaws of life” to

free the driver from the car, who had been pinned as a result of the accident.

The woman was subsequently airlifted to Doctor’s Medical Center of Modesto for

treatment.

Tracy

police officer Jim Winston said a driver who had followed the woman in her

newer model four-door Honda Accord reported that she was headed northbound on

Tracy Boulevard and had driven erratically before she turned west onto the

railroad tracks right before Beechnut Avenue.

She then

stopped her car on the tracks after she drove about 20 or so feet, straddling

the rails.

The witness

flagged down a pair of plainclothes police officers nearby. The officers said

the woman then sped off the tracks and hit a large mound of dirt before she

swerved back onto the tracks momentarily, then back onto the dirt and into a

fence, covering a distance of around 200 feet.

After the

woman ran over the fence, she managed to flip her car on its side, and she was

pinned until rescue teams managed to free her 10 minutes later.

“We don’t

know why she did this,” Winston said. “It’s under investigation.”

Another

police officer said the driver was an elderly woman who might’ve experienced

some sort of seizure.

Two

bystanders standing in the front yard of their house nearby said they heard the

crash but didn’t see it.

“I thought

somebody was coming through my living room,” one said.