Douglas County Sheriff's spokeswoman Pam Frank said John L. Nunes, 19, was trying to get rid of the bee or yellowjacket when his car hit a tree.
``I kind of panicked and went off the road,'' Nunes said Wednesday.
His car went down a 15-foot embankment.
He was taken by ambulance to Mercy Medical Center in Roseburg.
``I had to get a stitch in my tongue, and I got a gash on my left ankle,'' Nunes said. The tongue injury was from his teeth, not the bee, he said.
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