STIRRAT — It took emergency crews more than an hour to extricate a woman from her wrecked car yesterday after it collided head-on with a flat-bed truck hauling coal mine crib blocks at Stirrat.

The crash occurred around 1:20 pm. when northbound Roberta Gump, 49, of Logan County, crossed the center line in her gray Volvo and crashed into an oncoming International truck headed southbound on State Route 44.

Gump was tangled up in the wreckage from the time of the crash until around 2:30 p.m. and it took the use of two sets of the Jaws of Life to cut her out of the car.

“The preliminary investigation would indicate that she crossed left of center and made contact with the truck hauling the lumber at some point on his side of the roadway,” West Virginia State Police Trooper J.K. Harris said. “I’m not sure of the exact cause of the accident until the investigation is complete. But, for whatever reason, she definitely crossed left of center.”

Gump was transported to Logan Regional Hospital for treatment of her injuries, which appeared to be severe. She remained conscious and talked with emergency medical workers the entire time crews were cutting her out of the car.

The driver of the Banks Miller Supply truck, Rodney Cooper of Boone County, was shaken up in the crash, but suffered no life-threatening injuries.

“He is the benefactor of being in the larger vehicle,” Trooper Harris said.

Skid marks in the dirt alongside the highway show where Cooper swerved off the road to avoid hitting Gump’s car. “I came across the tracks and she was right up on me,” Cooper said.

Both lanes of Route 44 were blocked for nearly two hours after the crash.

West Virginia State Police troopers Harris, P.J. Dick, E.B. McClung and J.D. Boggs investigated the collision.

Trooper Harris said it was not known as of late Monday afternoon if speed was a factor in the crash.

The Main Island Creek Fire Department assisted with the extrication, traffic detail and cleanup.