LITTLE ROCK — A driver escaped injury Tuesday morning when his car veered out of control on Interstate 30, hit a pole and ended up on its side in a ditch.
It happened about 6:20 a.m. as 23-year-old Quentin Tucker, of Little Rock, drove a Chevy Impala east on the highway just before the Scott Hamilton Drive exit.
Hamilton said he believes a tire blew, causing him to "spin out of control."
The car then took out a large metal pole that held up one side of a lodging sign before tumbling down an embankment off the side of the roadway. The vehcile ended up on its side in the drainage ditch.
Tucker said he hit his head but felt fine and didn't plan on going to the hospital.
His mother, who said she rushed out as soon as she heard what happened, was pleased to find him standing outside the car unharmed.
"I was worried about my baby," Carla Tucker said while a tow truck began to move the vehicle. "You can get another car. You can't get another son."