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Woman thrown from convertible
Inn employee charged with public drunkenness
A Rappahannock woman was thrown from a speeding convertible car Tuesday night and received serious head injuries, according to Sheriff Connie Compton Smith.
Rescue workers responded to the employee parking lot near The Inn at Little Washington where the woman was taken by ambulance to a waiting helicopter, authorities said.
She was transported by helicopter to Winchester Hospital where she was reported to be in stable condition, according to the sheriff.
The woman has been identified as Camille Freeborn of Castleton.
Smith said that deputies did not witness how she was injured. Smith said the sheriff's office received a telephone call at 11:28 p.m., from an unidentified man who said "a woman has fallen out of a convertible at 50 miles an hour.”
When Deputy Robbie Fincham arrived at the scene he found the car in the employee parking lot near the corner of Main Street and Harris Hollow Road, authorities said. He summoned the Washington Volunteer Fire Department.
Fincham charged Simon Pound, 41, of Boston, Va., with public drunkenness. Pound was not in the car when Fincham arrived, according to the sheriff.
Pound is director of dining services at the inn and has been a longtime employee there. He was detained at the Rappahannock County jail, the sheriff said. A court date of Sept. 2 has been set.
Tuesday evening was the annual picnic for the Inn at Little Washington staff at the Marriott Ranch and Pound and Freeborn attended “for a short time,” according to an inn employee. Freeborn is not an employee of the inn.
“Our best wishes are with Camille. We hope she makes a speedy recovery,” said Andrew Welch, general manager of the inn.
The sheriff's office said it could not confirm a report that the accident actually occurred on Fodderstack Road.
Nicholas M. Horrock, Jan Clatterbuck and Mary Ann Kuhn contributed to this report.
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