SALINE COUNTY -Law enforcement authorities in Saline County are investigating why a woman was lying in the middle of a highway Monday night and injured when struck by an SUV.

Sheriff’s Captain Roger Soldan said a Solomon woman was driving eastbound on Old Highway 40 just after 8:40 p.m., when she saw a woman lying on the highway on the northeast edge of New Cambria near the intersection with Cunningham Road.

The driver swerved to avoid 49-year-old Tammy Stiefel but ran over her legs.

Stiefel was transported to Salina Regional Health Center for treatment of injuries.

Another westbound driver had stopped and tried to get the attention of the eastbound driver.

Soldan said deputies have no idea why the woman was on the highway, and don’t know how she wound up at that location.