Two people escaped serious injury after the SUV they were in rolled over east of Brownsboro earlier this week.

According to Department of Public Safety Trooper Johnny Massey, Pamela Jean Lomax, 22, was driving a 2005 GMC SUV eastbound on Highway 31 about three miles west of Brownsboro at 9:05 a.m. Tuesday, June 9, when her vehicle started to veer into the highway medium.

Lomax overcorrected and the vehicle rolled once across both lanes of the roadway and once more in the barrow ditch on the south side of the highway. It came to rest upright among small trees on the other side of the barrow ditch.

Passersby stopped to render aid and help Lomax and a passenger, Daniel Zandstra, 13, out of the vehicle. Both were able to walk from the wreckage and both received nonlifethreatening injures. They were transported by ETMC EMS to ETMC in Athens.

The vehicle received heavy damage and was removed from the scene by East Texas Towing of Brownsboro-Chandler.

Massey said Lomax and Zandstra were wearing safety restraints.

"Seat belts help," he said.

The crash remains under investigation. No citations were issued.

Assisting at the scene were Brownsboro Volunteer Fire Department Chief Robert Chambers and firefighters James Binkley, Russell Kunhs, Rusty Quattlebaum, Dustin McLean and Kyle Clark.