The driver and passenger were ejected from a car on Old Pine Tree Cemetery Road in Lebanon, N.H., on August 9, 2016, when the driver lost control and it rolled down an embankment. Driver Mykaela Simond, of White River Junction, Vt., was charged with Aggravated Driving While Intoxicated. (Courtesy Lebanon Police)
The driver and passenger were ejected from a car on Old Pine Tree Cemetery Road in Lebanon, N.H., on August 9, 2016, when the driver lost control and it rolled down an embankment. Driver Mykaela Simond, of White River Junction, Vt., was charged with Aggravated Driving While Intoxicated. (Courtesy Lebanon Police)

Lebanon— A 19-year-old White River Junction woman has been cited into court on a charge of aggravated driving while intoxicated after crashing a car on Tuesday evening on Old Pine Tree Cemetery Road in Lebanon.

Mykaela Simond and her passenger, 23-year-old Michael Taylor, of Lebanon, suffered serious injuries in the 7:30 p.m. crash, Lebanon Police Chief Richard Mello said in a news release issued today.

Both Simond and Taylor were ejected from the vehicle when it rolled down an embankment and came to rest on its roof, according to the release.

Police initially thought a third passenger may have been in the car at the time of the accident, but later learned that Simond had dropped that person off prior to the crash. A witness’s report of a pedestrian possibly being hit during the crash also turned out to be false.

Metal and other pieces of scrap were strewn across the road, roughly half a mile from the intersection with Route 4, as police and firefighters searched the bushes and a nearby field for the reported third passenger. 

Rescuers used thermal cameras and dogs in their searches.

Simond will answer to the felony charge in Lebanon District Court on Oct. 3.