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Kan. woman hospitalized after run over by her own vehicle

police accident emergency crashRENO COUNTY – A Reno County woman was injured in an accident on Wednesday after she was run over by her own car.

The Reno County Sheriff’s Department reported Beth A. Davis, 58, was driving a vehicle in the 200 Block of Ricksecker Street in Abbyville, southwest of Hutchinson.

Davis told deputies she was driving around looking for her daughter’s dog.

She saw the dog in a driveway, pulled into the driveway of the house and thought she had placed the vehicle into park.

When she stepped out of the vehicle, it traveled in reverse, knocked her to the ground and ran over her right leg.

The vehicle continued in reverse onto the property directly southwest and came to rest against a utility pole. The utility pole was not damaged.

Davis was transported to Hutchinson Regional Medical Center.

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