10/4/04

0008 hrs

Location- Bristol Twp., Bucks County, Pa.
700 Blk of New Rodgers Rd.

 

Fire/EMS units were dispatched on Rescue Box 14-31 for an auto extrication assignment involving a car under the rear of a tractor trailer. First in Chief 14 reported he had a car under the rear of a tractor trailer with a male heavily entrapped in the car, and gave initial assessment of the patient's medical status as "CAO" (conscious, alert, oriented). The car had struck the rear of the truck, which was parked alongside the road, at a high rate of speed and was underneath the trailer's ICC bar all the way up to the dashboard. Engine 14-1 arrived on-scene and charged a handline for standby in case it was needed. Although three rescue companies were sent on the initial dispatch, command requested a 4th rescue to the scene. Extricating the patient involved removing the doors and roof; a dashboard displacement and lifting the trailer up approx. 22 inches in order to remove the male. EMS on-scene requested a helicopter to the scene for transport as the male had major lower extremity injuries and presented signs of having internal bleeding in the abdomen area. University MedEvac 5 responded to a nearby LZ for the scene flight. Extrication was completed at 0038 hrs, with the patient being removed to the LZ for his flight to a Philadelphia trauma center. The incident is under investigation by the Bristol Twp. PD as a possible DUI for the car's driver and the tractor trailer driver will be ticketed for stopping in a marked "no stopping or standing" zone.

 

Units involved:

 

Third District VFC Engine 14-1

Edgley VFC Rescue 10

Penndel Fire Co. Rescue 8

Bristol FC #1 Rescue 51

American Hose Hook&Ladder #2 Rescue 53

EMS Battalion Chief 143

Medic 143

Bristol Twp. Police Dept

 

At the LZ:

University MedEvac 5

Newportville FC Engine 82-1

Third Dist. VFC Special Service 14