For a carful of people and first responders, a steering mishap turned into a single-car crash in Old Town, where the flipped vehicle shocked passersby and social media users.
Two women and a child were inside a car that smacked into a curb, hit a tree and then flipped over on Simonton Street near the Eaton Street intersection, according to Key West police.
Only minor injuries were reported. The child was in a car seat at the time of the crash, around 8 a.m. on Aug. 21.
The child, the child’s mother and another woman were taken to Lower Keys Medical Center “out of an abundance of caution,” police spokeswoman Alyson Crean said.
A crash report wasn’t available as of press time and the car’s occupants were not immediately identified by police.
It was unclear the next day, on Aug. 22, whether speed was an issue in the crash, Crean said.
“Her tire went up over the curb, and the car hit the tree just right to flip it over,” Crean said.
Police officers who are specially trained in traffic crashes are looking into the cause, Key West Police Chief Sean Brandenburg told the Keys Weekly.
“There are multiple things that play into the physics of a crash and whether the automobile flips over or not,” Brandenburg said.
Monday’s rollover driver isn’t the first to hit that piece of yellow curb, where Simonton Street narrows a bit as the curb makes a border around the front of the tree that was involved.
