What a Saturday night last Saturday was. We get called out to a roll over vehicle near the marina. When we get there I grab the customary items needed and run towards the vehicle then stopped because I just knew no one could have lived through this.
The car was, as I found out later because we couldn’t id it at the scene, a Buick Skylark. The driver ran off the side of the road at a curve. Basically, the road went left and the driver kept going straight. The driver knocks out a telephone pole and goes across two yards and in the second yard hits a covet which sends him airborne. The car rolls on its side and hits a sweet-gum tree. It hits this tree at the windshield and that just flattened the roof against the car body.
The car spun 90 deg. and landed against some kudzu vines that had taken to the trees. For those readers that are not familiar with kudzu, some kudzu vines can make it an almost impassible barrier.
This acted like a net for the car and kept it from going father into the back 40. One of the firemen that were there ahead of us told us that someone was alive in the wreck. When we got up there we could see through a little opening into the front seat that someone was there and he was talking to us. In this little picture that I took with my cell phone, that’s what we could see of the driver until Fire could open the car up for us.
Once the roof was removed then we could get to our patient, but he was still trapped by the dash folding in on the front seat. The driver had rolled to his right across the front seats before the dash folded in. He wasn’t wearing a seatbelt. This kept the steering column from being embedded into his chest. I feared that he had internal injuries and that the pressure of the dash was what was keeping his blood pressure up, and that he would bottom out when that pressure was released.
But when the dash was peeled back, it seems that it was only pinning his knees down to keep him from being lifted out. Once we got him out then we sent him to Columbus, via helicopter. They called back and reported that his left shoulder was fracture, as was his left elbow and a small fracture in his lower back that the doctors were not going to worry about.
In other words, when that car folded in onto itself, it left a void only so big that the driver was able to fit perfectly into. Plus the driver slid into that void at just the right time. Hmmm, don't try and tell me that God doesn't look out after his creatures.
The car was, as I found out later because we couldn’t id it at the scene, a Buick Skylark. The driver ran off the side of the road at a curve. Basically, the road went left and the driver kept going straight. The driver knocks out a telephone pole and goes across two yards and in the second yard hits a covet which sends him airborne. The car rolls on its side and hits a sweet-gum tree. It hits this tree at the windshield and that just flattened the roof against the car body.
The car spun 90 deg. and landed against some kudzu vines that had taken to the trees. For those readers that are not familiar with kudzu, some kudzu vines can make it an almost impassible barrier.
This acted like a net for the car and kept it from going father into the back 40. One of the firemen that were there ahead of us told us that someone was alive in the wreck. When we got up there we could see through a little opening into the front seat that someone was there and he was talking to us. In this little picture that I took with my cell phone, that’s what we could see of the driver until Fire could open the car up for us.Once the roof was removed then we could get to our patient, but he was still trapped by the dash folding in on the front seat. The driver had rolled to his right across the front seats before the dash folded in. He wasn’t wearing a seatbelt. This kept the steering column from being embedded into his chest. I feared that he had internal injuries and that the pressure of the dash was what was keeping his blood pressure up, and that he would bottom out when that pressure was released.
But when the dash was peeled back, it seems that it was only pinning his knees down to keep him from being lifted out. Once we got him out then we sent him to Columbus, via helicopter. They called back and reported that his left shoulder was fracture, as was his left elbow and a small fracture in his lower back that the doctors were not going to worry about.
In other words, when that car folded in onto itself, it left a void only so big that the driver was able to fit perfectly into. Plus the driver slid into that void at just the right time. Hmmm, don't try and tell me that God doesn't look out after his creatures.
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