THIS TOYOTA SEDAN DRIVEN by a Garland woman landed upside down after the driver tried to avoid tire debris on I-45 south of Fairfield last week. The woman sustained minor injuries in the wreck. Within a couple of hours last Thursday, Department of Public Safety troopers worked two rollover accidents on I-45 south of Fairfield.

The first wreck occurred at 12:23 p.m. about 1.5 miles south of town and resulted in minor injuries to Angela Chong, 17, of Garland who was driving south in a 2002 Toyota Carolla.

DPS Trooper Fred Thornton reports that Miss Chong swerved to avoid tire debris on the road and lost control of her vehicle.

The Toyota left the interstate on the left and overturned in the median, coming to rest on its roof.

The driver was taken by Fairfield Emergency Medical Service to East Texas Medical Center for treatment of minor injuries.

The second wreck occurred 11.6 miles south of Fairfield at 2:22 p.m., injuring Lawrence Leslie Colding, 56, of Bowie who was flown by medical helicopter to a Waco hospital.

DPS Trooper Travis Alewine reports that Colding was driving a 2008 Chevrolet Cobalt sedan in the outside lane of I- 45 traveling south when a 2005 Ford F-150 pickup truck driven by Bryan Albert Garza, 19, of Pasadena attempted to change from the inside to the outside traffic lane.

When the pickup started into the outside lane of traffic, Colding swerved and lost control of his car, which went off the road and rolled, coming to rest on its wheels, Alewine's report shows.

The trooper also notes that a DPS captain en route to Fairfield witnessed the wreck and called it in by radio.

Garza was issued a traffic citation for unsafe lane change.