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Sisters teen injured in wreck near Suttle Lake

Gabrielle Carnavan, 19, of Sisters was seriously injured in a single-vehicle accident on Suttle Lake Road on Monday evening, July 22.

Carnavan's friend Nichole Beukelman, 17, was following Carnavan's car leaving Scout Lake after swimming.

Beukelman witnessed the accident.

According to Oregon State Police reports, the right wheels on Carnavan's 1986 Ford Mustang left the roadway and hit the gravel. The driver overcorrected, the car shot across the roadway and stuck a large pine tree, OSP reported.

Beukelman said she stopped and ran to Carnavan's car, checked her for head and neck injuries, pulled her from the wreck and laid her on the ground. Beukelman's brother ran to a nearby campground to summon help.

Carnavan was transported to St. Charles Medical center with a broken leg, broken rib, broken collar bone and lacerations.

Alcohol was not a factor in the accident and no citationss were issued, according to OSP.

Beukelman said the accident holds a lesson for teens.

"After watching this and seeing what she's going through ... people my age need to slow down," she said.

While Beukelman indicated that Carnavan was driving over the speed limit, the driver's inexperience in dealing with a loss of vehicle control may have been the major factor in the accident.

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