I-94 rollover sends 1 to hospital Monday am

Jamestown (CSi)  The Jamestown Fire Department was called out about 8:10 a.m., Monday for an extrication involving a one vehicle rollover, on I-94 at mile marker  266.

The North Dakota Highway Patrol reports, a 2005 Pontiac Bonneville, operated by 58 year old Gregory Rasmussen of Valley City was westbound about 7:50-a.m., when he failed to maintain control of the vehicle on the ice-covered roadway.

The car slid across the westbound lane, entered the median, and overturned.

Rasmussen was transported by Jamestown Area Ambulance Service, and the vehicle was towed from the scene.

He was wearing a seat belt.

Rasmussen was charged with care required.

City Fire Chief Jim Reuther says the fire department cut the top off the car and extricated Rasmussen, with 10 firefighters and two units on the scene.

The Stutsman County Sheriff’s Office assisted at the scene, with first aid and traffic control.

Earlier….

Information from the scene from CSi Photographer, Tom Ravely indicates the male driver of the vehicle was westbound and the vehicle rolled into the median.

The fire department cut the top off the vehicle and extricated the man, who was taken by Jamestown Area Ambulance Service to Jamestown Regional Medical Center.

The man was conscious  when he was taken from the scene.

City Fire Chief Jim Reuther says 10 fire fighters and two units were on the scene about a half hour.

More information when the accident report is filed.