A woman was hospitalized Thursday night after she was found in the woods off Norton Road by search teams responding to a distress call.
According to Capt. Tom Ewing with the Floyd County Police Department and Rome-Floyd E-911:
The woman, in her late 20s or early 30s, was found about 900 feet from the road, semi-conscious and apparently in some kind of medical distress. Her condition did not appear to be life threatening.
A Georgia Bureau of Investigation crime scene investigation unit was called to the scene.
“We’re going to treat it as a crime scene until we find differently. You have to do that,” Ewing said, adding that police were not ruling out any possibilities.
Police, who were dispatched to the area about 8:56 p.m., found the woman about an hour later using Global Positioning Hardware and a cell phone signal that was relayed through 911.
She was thought to be the driver of a tractor-trailer hauling grain that was parked on Norton Road, which intersects U.S. 411, east of Rome. It was not clear where the woman was from, from where the truck originated or where it was going.
The driver’s door of the truck had the words “CRT INC” and “CORINTH, MS” on it, while the trailer had Wisconsin tags.
Members of the FCPD, Rome-Floyd Metro Task Force, Georgia State Patrol, Rome Police Department and Floyd County Emergency Management Agency helped in the search.
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