A 19-year-old Kapa'a woman suffered serious injuries yesterday on Kaua'i after slipping off the edge of Loop Road in Wailua and falling into a stream.

Police said the woman was trying to walk over the first stream crossing with several friends on Loop Road at about 6 p.m. when she slipped and fell into the river, impaling her lower right leg on a piece of steel reinforcing bar that was hidden beneath the surface of the water. Police, fire and medical personnel freed the victim from the rebar.

The woman was taken to Wilcox Hospital.