For the second time in 10 days and the third time in three months, someone exiting Seaside Drive lost control of their vehicle, drove over the sea wall and landed in the Cow Key Channel Wednesday morning.

The red Nissan Titan pickup truck landed upright in about 4 feet of water and the unidentified woman driving it was taken to the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries, police said.

She apparently tried to make a left turn, spun her tires, overcorrected and fishtailed on South Roosevelt Boulevard, still wet from morning rain, according to Key West policeman Donny Barrios.

One of the first responders on the scene about 9:45 a.m., Barrios jumped in the water, where a witness was already talking to the woman, and helped pull her from the truck.

"I tried to calm her," he said. "She looked like she was in shock and was complaining that she couldn't feel her arms."

Firefighters helped Barrios stabilize the woman's neck, place her on a stretcher and remove her from the water. She was taken to Lower Keys Medical Center.

Neither drugs nor alcohol were a factor in the crash, but she was cited with misdemeanor careless driving, Barrios said.

On Aug. 22, a similarly sized Ford F-350 pickup truck plunged into the water in the same location. That driver was not seriously injured.

"This is the third vehicle I've had to pull out of there in three months," said Ricky Arnold of Arnold's Towing. A police report on the third incident was not immediately available Wednesday. "Each time they go airborne and clear the sea wall. There hasn't been any damage to the sidewalk or sea wall. That's a lot of truck to clear that wall."

Arnold put some of the blame on the median.

"It looks to me like they all hit that median, overcompensate, hit the sidewalk and go airborne," Arnold said. "I don't like those medians on the boulevard -- they're dangerous."

Barrios warned motorists to be careful in that location, particularly this time of year.

"Everyone needs to be cognizant of the conditions there when it's wet, and especially during hurricane season," Barrios said.

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