[Scan-DC] Crash last night

[Doug Kitchener]

Wow, yeah, I heard that... must have been a mess.  She was transported to Suburban as a Priority 1 Category A... could hear her screaming in the back of the medic unit as the paramedic was giving his report... pretty unnerving.  I think she had two broken lower legs as well.  I seem to remember that her vital signs were pretty stable though... she was pretty beat up but I suspect that she'll make a full recovery, but I would imagine it will be awhile.

As you know, he was less seriously injured but was taken to Suburban as well, he was a Priority 2.  There had been a couple of working fires that I had listened to and I was dozing when all this went down and started to drop off again as it was winding up, so I don't remember some of the details, but I think it took about 20 mins to get her out... and I think both of them may have been under 21, but not sure.

You may have heard also, there was a pretty big fire in an apartment down on Hewitt Avenue in Aspen Hill that was going on at about the same time (dispatched at 0002 I think) and some of the units from your area were probably on that... I forget who ran the Old Baltimore Road call, but some of them may have been units that were transferred from other stations.  Prior to that there was a working house fire on Margate Road in the Four Corners area; that had pretty well been cleared up by the time the Hewitt Ave call went out.

I haven't seen or heard anything more about it in the news today.

DK

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> From: merlin at merlinjacobs.com
> To: Scan-DC at mailman.qth.net
> Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2010 18:02:48 -0500
> Subject: [Scan-DC] Crash last night
>
> There was a car crash last night in front of my house on Old Baltimore Road at 1:20am. I heard the screeching brakes and then the impact. I was the first on the seen and called 911 from my cell. The BMW was occupied by a 30ish couple. He lost control and hit a tree head on. The car was split from the front bumper 3/4 back through the car. He got out and was very disoriented. She was trapped in her seat with her knees up under her chin. She kept begging us to let her out. I kept telling her help was on the way. Her left arm was broken above the wrist. The skin was broken and she was bleeding. The driver did not seem to really care about her. He was more concerned about getting a ticket. Soon EMS arrived and the road was shut down. I went back in and tried to go back to sleep, but it took awhile with all the noise outside. I hope the the girl will be ok. Her name was Kelly.
>
> The section of Old Baltimore Road I live on is at a blind curve and we get about 6 to 10 crashes a year out front here.
>
> Did anyone hear it on their scanner?
>
> Merlin
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