Trash Talk - Dangers of Ice. Sercit - Wed Jan 23, 2008 4:15 am Post subject: Dangers of Ice.
This morning from 4:58 am till a little after 9 am we, the Dept. I'm on, responded to twenty wrecks. Thankfully every wreck was just vehicular damage and no patients where seriously injured. I knew we got off lucky, the department I'm on has about ten miles (If not more.) of Parkway, and another ten miles til the county line of just narrow, unholy country road, not to mention whats within our own jurisdiction that's not added on because of a need for us to respond to it.
Like I said, we got off lucky but other departments in our region wasn't.
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Two separate accidents at the same location Tuesday morning has left the EMS director in Paintsville and a pregnant woman dead.
The incidents happened around 9 a.m. on US 460 in Johnson County near the Magoffin County line where paramedics originally responded to a minor crash involving a pregnant woman.
While on that scene, a coal truck lost control on an incline and hit EMS Director Christa Burchett along with the pregnant victim of the original crash.
Burchett was rushed to Paul B. Hall Regional Medical Center, where she was pronounced dead at 10:04 a.m. The pregnant woman, identified as Erica Brown, was pronounced dead at the scene. Police say she had not appeared to have suffered any injures from the first crash.
Another paramedic, Brian Moore, was treated and released from Hall Regional.
Paintsville Mayor Bob Porter said, "Christa Burchett is a valuable member of our city team. We're devastated by what's happened."
Police are still investigating.
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Moral of the story. If you don't have to be out after an Ice storm wait. It ain't going to kill you to just wait a couple of hours to wait and see if it clears up, unless it's life/death to begin with.
New tires don't matter, either. They help, but it still didn't stop our Rescue Truck and the two POV's carrying extra units following, from going sideways for a good fifty feet before we got off it. Gah, that was scary as all hell.
CypherJF - Wed Jan 23, 2008 7:24 am Post subject:
People are idiots when it comes to driving in snow and/or ice. Sercit - Wed Jan 23, 2008 6:42 pm Post subject:
srsly. The trucker in the article, confirmed by more people but not officially yet, that he was driving safely just lost it in ice, but on the parkway we had the majority of the trucks passing us doing over sixty on ice. It's a thousand wonders there wasn't more deaths.
