feddoc
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Ya' gotta be careful driving. (not that you are not)
Yesterday I was coming back to my kids house from getting some new faucets. Up ahead, I saw what looked like a wreck. It was. Four vehicles involved; a big box truck, a tiny car, an overturned dodge one ton quad cab truck and a vehicle in the ditch.
I was third on the scene. The over turned truck had three occupants; two kids and a pregnant woman. All are fine.
The guy in the ditch had no one with him, so I went to his car. He was talking, but injured. I wiggled my fingers through the airbag curtain and asked if he could see them. I cut the airbag curtain just to see what kind of shape he was in.
Anyway, without the details I began taking a medical history, did some simple neurological tests and then asked him if he wanted to call someone. He was coherent throughout. He rattled off his wife's number without hesitation. They spoke for a bit, then I promised to follow up with her with regards to which hospital careflight was taking him.
Unfortunately, his wife called about an hour later and said he had passed away. Seventy one years old, on his way to Alabama (home) and now his wife is planning his cremation all because someone was in a hurry to pass the box truck.
A full head on crash is tough to survive when one of the vehicles weighs 7 or 8K. All his airbags deployed (they were still smoking), his seat belt was on, he passed all the neuro checks.
Yesterday I was coming back to my kids house from getting some new faucets. Up ahead, I saw what looked like a wreck. It was. Four vehicles involved; a big box truck, a tiny car, an overturned dodge one ton quad cab truck and a vehicle in the ditch.
I was third on the scene. The over turned truck had three occupants; two kids and a pregnant woman. All are fine.
The guy in the ditch had no one with him, so I went to his car. He was talking, but injured. I wiggled my fingers through the airbag curtain and asked if he could see them. I cut the airbag curtain just to see what kind of shape he was in.
Anyway, without the details I began taking a medical history, did some simple neurological tests and then asked him if he wanted to call someone. He was coherent throughout. He rattled off his wife's number without hesitation. They spoke for a bit, then I promised to follow up with her with regards to which hospital careflight was taking him.
Unfortunately, his wife called about an hour later and said he had passed away. Seventy one years old, on his way to Alabama (home) and now his wife is planning his cremation all because someone was in a hurry to pass the box truck.
A full head on crash is tough to survive when one of the vehicles weighs 7 or 8K. All his airbags deployed (they were still smoking), his seat belt was on, he passed all the neuro checks.
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