After a 76-year-old woman crashed an SUV into a fence on Camino Real Drive in Herculaneum on Oct. 17, the vehicle caught fire. The woman was the only one inside the 2017 Ford Explorer, and she was not injured, authorities reported.
Herculaneum Police Capt. Mark Grobe would not release the woman’s name.
The Herculaneum Police Department and Dunklin Fire Protection District got a call just before 1 p.m. about the accident,
“She ran off the road,” Grobe said. “We are still investigating the circumstances. She struck privacy fencing next to the road. She was not transported (for medical care).”
He said the woman was wearing a seat belt.
Dunklin Fire Chief Brad Williams said when firefighters arrived, they found the Explorer stopped on Camino Real Drive at Camino Point off McNutt School Road, and the SUV was on fire.
“The car was on the roadway when we got there, but there was a privacy fence where quite a lot was gone,” Williams said. “It took, probably, 10 minutes to put out the fire, and the (vehicle) was totaled from the fire.“