Hampshire County Farm Bureau
Vice President Rescues Woman
from Burning Vehicle
reprinted with permission from the Hampshire Review
The weather was so warm and sunny on March 11,
county resident Lisa Polk decided that it would be a fine
day to take a drive over the state line to Virginia to get
some new eyeglasses at Walmart. Traveling down Route
50 in the early afternoon, Polk suddenly swerved to
avoid a patch of potholes. She lost control of her car and
crashed into a tree along the roadway.
“I remember landing in the passenger side floorboard
and seeing the airbags deployed in front of me,” Polk
recounted last week. “The next thing I remembered was )