CLEVELAND — A 48-year-old North Olmsted woman who may have been distracted by eating food as she drove, died Sunday afternoon after her car struck concrete barriers at a sharp curve in Warren Road and flipped over.

Ellen M. Satink of Spruce Drive was pronounced dead at Fairview Hospital in Cleveland at 1:15 p.m., according to Lt. Thomas Stacho, public information officer for the Cleveland Police Department.

Satink was southbound on Warren Road at 12:19 p.m. when she struck the barriers, which are at a very sharp curve in Warren Road near Frick Court, Stacho said.

“We won’t know for certain until the coroner fills in the details further, but she may have been distracted (from driving) in the area where she crashed while eating a sandwich,” Stacho said. “She may have begun choking and had a medical emergency.”

Satink, who was alone in her vehicle, went off the right side of the road. “The wheels on the passenger side climbed up the cement wall (of the barriers),” Stacho said. “The car flipped over onto the driver’s side, skidded a short distance and came to rest on all four wheels.”

The woman was not breathing when emergency personnel reached her, Stacho said.

Contact Steve Fogarty at 329-7146 or sfogarty@chroniclet.com.

 

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