The Saline County Sheriff’s Office continues to investigate why a woman was laying in the middle of a highway Monday night, and injured when struck by an SUV.

Captain Roger Soldan said a 31-year-old Solomon woman was eastbound on Old Highway 40 at about 8:40 p.m., when she saw a woman laying on the highway on the northeast edge of New Cambria, near the intersection with Cunningham Road.

The woman swerved to avoid 49-year-old Tammy Stiefel, but ran over her legs. She was transported to Salina Regional Health Center by EMS for treatment of injuries.

Another driver who had been going westbound had stopped and tried to get the attention of the eastbound SUV.

Soldan said deputies have no idea why the woman was laying in the highway, and don’t know how she wound up at that location.