uglyEMT Posted August 5, 2011 Posted August 5, 2011 (edited) Hey all. Don't know if I put this in the right forum but anyways... Was a good samaritan yesterday and had the best providers I have ever worked with. Driving home I notice a woman waving her arms franticly at passing motorists so I flip on my warning lights and pull over. First thoughts as I am doing this is pedi choking, husband having a heart attack, sick child, ect.. I get out and ask, "Mam I am an EMT what seems to be the problem?" I am then told she witnessed a MVA and pointed into the hollow. I look and see nothing except under brush but do notice what appear to be tire tracks leading into it. She says she witnessed a car veer off the road, hit a telephone pole and then disappear into the brush. I say, "Ok Mam stay here, let me get my bag and take a look." Grab my jump bag and start bush wacking. I come to a BMW sunk to maybe 1/4 way up the doors in muck and mire so I realize opening them will be tricky if not impossible. I notice the driver slumped over and not moving. I think to myself is he unresponsive, had a heart attack, just pissed? Get to the window and tap on it. He looks at me all doey eyed so instant relief comes over me. Apparently he was texting his wife to say he was alright. OK so I try and get the doors open, not happening. I ask him to roll the windows down so I can gain access. No good, apparently power was cut during the accident. OK I inform him I am going to break a rear window to gain entry and he says OK. Walk around to the rear passenger side and hit the window with my window punch. I enter the car and notice the airbag deployed but no spidering of the windshield or cabin intrusion. Male mid 40s moving around well no complaints or visable injuries. I ask him to remain still while I preform a rapid assesment. Quick once over and all seems wel. I am glad for this because being in a good sam position I don't have to follow my arcaic MVA protocol from my squad and have full C-spine taken. Its at this point the "other providers" show up. Apparently while I was doing this they noticed my lights and stopped. Anyways... I look up and coming through the window was a guy in full BDU's. Army Medic!!! just coming back from the sand box and said he noticed my lights and wanted to help. I let him know what I found and he said OK let me check just to be sure. We switch positions and he does his thing. Agrees with my assesment and asks if the guy wanted help getting out of the vehicle. Guy refuses the help and all of us climb out the window. Its just then I notice another man in a suit coming twords us. I let the person know we don't need him down here we are coming up. Get to the road and the guy was still there. He tells us he is a trauma surgeon and wanted to make sure all is well. LOL hows that for a good sam incident. You have an MVA and get an EMT, Army Medic, and a Trauma Surgeon all to stop and help, if needed this gentleman had probably the 3 best folks on scene anyone could wish for. By this point PD is on scene and I hear in the distance the distinct noise of fire monkeys. 2 pumpers, heavy rescue and a chief show up. I do have to say this though, I don't know about your local volly fire units but this one actually had a girl (I say girl cause she looked young, maybe 18ish if that) jump out of the pumper with her turnout pants on and a bikini top! Apparently she was at the local lake and decided to come on the call. Guess a T shirt was optional or at least putting on your turn out jacket. Talk about unprofessional. All the usual goes on and I stay and chat with the Army guy and surgeon. After a while everyone is starting to leave and I get a chance to talk with the guy in the car. After some minor chit chat the cop asks if he has a ride coming. He says no but he doesn't live far. I ask where he lives figuring it would be the right thing to do. He tells me where he lives and I am shocked, 3 blocks from MY house. This guy is a neighbor of mine and I had no idea LOL So when I tell him where I live we both start laughing. He calls his wife and at first she is reluctant to have her husband get into a strangers car. He calms her by telling her that the ride he is getting is by one of our local EMTs and if she trusted the EMTs to take care of people in the neighborhood he should be OK getting a ride from one. I drop off the guy off to his waiting in the driveway wife and inform both of them that if anything changes or starts hurting to give 911 a call and we will come no problem. So there you have it stop for an MVA, get provided with 2 of the best qualified other good sams, and drive the patient home personally Edited August 5, 2011 by UGLyEMT 1
PCP Posted August 6, 2011 Posted August 6, 2011 Great story!! Sure is nice to read about a accident that turns out good. Happy to hear the driver was okay and that you such a good team on your side. Did you find out what caused the accident?
uglyEMT Posted August 8, 2011 Author Posted August 8, 2011 Deer running across the road caused the accident. He swerved to avaoid it, got into the soft shoulder and lost it. It was a pretty drastic incline off the shoulder so I could see where he wasn't able to maintain control. From what we discussed he steered into the slide once he realized what was happening to avoid rolling the car.
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