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A STANDSTILL ON ROUTE 4...
AFTER AN ACCIDENT SHUTS DOWN
THE HIGHWAY FOR SEVERAL HOURS.
GOOD EVENING, I'M MARK ALLAN.
AND I'M KATIE USSIN. DAN
EDWARDS HAS DETAILS OF THE
CRASH THAT TESTED THE SKILLS
OF EMERGENCY CREWS IN OUR TOP
STORY.
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AROUND 8 THIS MORNING HUBER
HEIGHTS FIRE DEPARTMENT RACED
AGAINST THE CLOCK TO RESCUE
THE DRIVER OF THIS VAN THAT
REAR-ENDED THIS DUMP TRUCK
NEAR LOWER VALLEY PIKE.
PROBABLY ONE OF THE MOST
COMPLEX EXTRACATIONS I'VE
SEEN. FOR NEARLY AN HOUR,
RESCUE CREWS CUT INTO THE
WRECKAGE...TRYING TO FREE THE
TRAPPED DRIVER. SGT.@YEA, THEY
HAD TO PEEL THE WHOLE SIDE OF
THE VAN OFF.. NEVER SEEN IT DO
THAT BEFORE. POLICE TELL US
THE VAN'S DASHBOARD HAD
CRUMBLED AROUND THE DRIVERS
LEGS, TRAPPING HIM UNDER THE
WEIGHT OF THE DUMPTRUCK LOADED
WITH 20 TONS OF PEA GRAVEL.
WITH THE PROLONGED EXTRACATION
WE CONTACTED CAREFLIGHT
HELICOPTERS TO COME IN, WE
KNEW IT WAS GOING TO TAKE A
WHILE SO THE HELECOPTER WAS
STANDING BY TO GET HIM TO THE
HOSPITAL FAST. WITH THE
HELP OF SPECIALIZED TOOLS FROM
WRIGHT-PATT, CREWS WERE ABLE
TO FINALLY REMOVE THE DRIVER
AND GET HIM TO THE AWAITING
CAREFLIGHT CHOPPER. CREWS
WERE AMAZED THE DRIVER WASN'T
GUY MIGHT HAVE INTERNAL
INJURIES OR HE MIGHT NOT,
WE'RE TAKING ALL THE
PRECAUTIONS JUST IN CASE.
CHIEF KNISLEY FEARS THE DRIVER
MAY HAVE INTERNAL INJURIES
CAUSED BY COMPRESSION FROM THE
STEERING WHEEL. BUT WERE THE
DRIVER'S INJURIES SEVERE
ENOUGH TO WARRANT CALLING
CAREFLIGHT?I THINK HOW WE
WOULD CLASSIFY IT AS THE
MECHANISM OF INJURY THERE WAS
A GOOD CHANCE FOR INJURIES AND
SERIOUS ENOUGH TO BE
TRANSPORTED BY MEDICAL
HELECOPTER. DAN EDWARDS 2
NEWS!