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Lewinsky Injured in Car Accident
By ANTHONY BREZNICAN
.c The Associated Press
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Monica Lewinsky was slightly injured when she became
distracted while driving and her sport utility vehicle rolled over into
oncoming traffic in Ventura.
The dark blue Explorer toppled on its side at 1 p.m. Sunday on Highway 101
about 60 miles northwest of Los Angeles, said Bob Inman, a CHP dispatcher.
``She was awake and alert when paramedics arrived,'' Inman said.
Motorists who stopped to help didn't recognize the former White House intern,
according to Will Wood, who said he witnessed the accident.
``She had a lot of cuts on her left arm and some of her blood got onto my
hands,'' Wood said in a telephone interview. ``But she never passed out.''
Ms. Lewinsky, 26, was treated for scrapes and bruises at Community Memorial
Hospital in Ventura and released, said a nursing supervisor who declined to
give her name.
Ms. Lewinsky's father and another person, who was not identified, came to the
hospital to pick her up, the supervisor said. ``She's fine,'' Dr. Bernard
Lewinsky told Los Angeles television station KABC.
Inman said Ms. Lewinsky, who lives in Los Angeles, was not cited for the
accident and alcohol or drugs weren't involved in the crash.
Ms. Lewinsky, who was alone, was driving in the left northbound lane when she
reached over to the passenger seat to take something out of her purse, Inman
said.
``When she looked up, she realized she was very close to a motor home which
was traveling in the lane next to her,'' Inman said, quoting a report taken
by officers investigating the accident.
Ms. Lewinsky veered left to avoid a collision and lost control. She swerved
back and forth but was unable to regain control and the Explorer crossed a
dusty median strip and toppled on its side, coming to rest in the left
southbound lane, Inman said.
It was unclear how fast Ms. Lewinsky was driving, where she was going or what
she was trying to get out of the purse, Inman said.
The southbound lane was closed for about 30 minutes while the vehicle was
towed away. The Explorer, which had about 5000 miles on the odometer, was
scratched and dented and its driver's side mirror was crushed.
``She missed our car by about 10 feet,'' said Wood, 45, a retired police
officer from Santa Barbara.
Wood said he had to swerve to miss the Explorer. He and other motorists
stopped to aid the driver.
``I saw there was a girl in the front seat, and she was trying to get out of
her safety belt. I didn't know who she was,'' he said. ``You don't think
about that sort of thing in that kind of situation.''
``She said her name was Monica and we were using her name to calm her down,
like 'It's okay, Monica,''' Wood added.
Mike Moore, a Ventura County Fire Department rescue worker, told Los Angeles
TV station KTLA he didn't realize who Lewinsky was until a CHP officer tipped
him off.
``It was a surprise. You never know who's going to come cruising down the
101,'' Moore said.
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