One flown following crash on Newstead Road

A woman was flown to a Nashville hospital following a single-vehicle crash on Newstead Road Wednesday morning. 

According to Hopkinsville Fire and EMS Captain Rogers, it happened near the two-mile-marker of Newstead Road around 11 a.m. when a vehicle went off the roadway for an unknown reason and hit an embankment. 

The 72-year-old female patient had a head injury, along with an obvious fracture to the lower leg. She was flown to Skyline Medical Center in Nashville for treatment.