Wreck sends two to hospital

A mother and daughter injured when their SUV flipped Friday afternoon are out of the hospital.

Elizabeth Graham Morrison, 53, the driver, and her daughter, Anna Morrison, 18, both of Raleigh, were injured when their Chevrolet Tahoe crashed on N.C. 101, about two miles east of N.C. 306 in rural Craven County.

Cherry Point rescue helicopter Pedro flew the two to Pitt Memorial Hospital in Greenville. A hospital spokesman said Monday that Anna Morrison was treated and released, while Elizabeth Morrison was released from the hospital on Sunday.

Art Kirby, trooper with the N.C. Highway Patrol, said the car ran off the shoulder of the road into a rut about a foot deep and flipped. He said the vehicle overturned once and went airborne for 36 feet until coming to rest on its wheels.

Kirby said he had spoken with a resident that lived where the crash happened. He said the resident said a large boat had run off the road, leaving the rut, and that the resident had called the N.C. Department of Transportation to report the rut as dangerous.

David Livingston, Carteret County maintenance engineer with DOT, said Monday that he wasn't aware of the severity of the rut at the location of the crash.

"We are always out there fixing drop-offs," he said. "We have to work to improve that road continuously because of the truck traffic."

Livingston said the he intended to get a crew out to the location to make improvements.