Monday, December 3, 2007

**Single Motor Vehicle Accident**



Just as I was about to fall asleep at 2am in the morning, I was startled by the tones of my pager. The call came in stating vehicle accident at "such and such street." As we were arriving on scene, I saw the car just as you are seeing it, thinking there is NO way anyone survived this crash. Well, to my doubts, there wasn't one person that survived...there was 2 people that survived. Just as we got our Squad positioned, the ambulance crew was pushing someone on a stretcher in the ambulance. Then someone else was covered in blood standing, and hopping around with an obvious broken leg. Well, needless to say, we stopped the second guy, and got him onto a backboard, then stretcher as well. Before long, we were conducting our secondary search of the area to make sure no one else was laying around. Apparently, they were only wearing their shoulder belts (from the automatic seatbelts, not their lap belts which in turn probably saved their lives. One was ejected, the other thrown in the back seat which was barely there. Also upon further investigation, the pole was cracking, and was about to snap completely. Borderline surviving this accident, here is another picture of this car afterwards. I'd comment more on this, but I'm about to fall asleep sitting at this computer.


1 comment:

Rebecca Foster said...

Wow. Just...wow. I hate driving. Now I hate it more.