CARMEL – A Gardiner woman who apparently fell asleep at the wheel while on Interstate 95 Sunday night was hospitalized after her car flipped over in the median and she was ejected a short distance, state police said.

Nicole Barter, 19, was still being evaluated at Eastern Maine Medical Center late Sunday night, a hospital nursing supervisor said. The crash was reported at 9:40 p.m. and occurred on the northbound lane of I-95 near mile marker 168 in Carmel.

Barter was alone in the 1991 Chevrolet Cavalier, which drifted into the rumble strip. She then sharply overcorrected, said Trooper Brenda Coolen, who investigated the accident.

“The marks on the road show she skidded across the driving and passing lane,” Coolen said.

The car hit the side of the median, skidded farther, and the wheels caught, flipping the car over in the air and into the tree line, the trooper said. The car landed on its wheels, but Barter was thrown from the vehicle, which indicated that she wasn’t wearing a seat belt.

Barter was conscious and talking at the scene but was in pain, the trooper said.