DADE COUNTY, Georgia - Tuesday, December 16,2008 - 5:00 pm - Rescuers with
North Dade County Fire Department, Trenton Fire Department and Hutcheson EMS
were dispatched to a motor vehicle crash with injuries and entrapment on
Highway 11 near the intersection of Slygo Road. Additional 9-1-1 calls
reported the crash was extremely serious with one vehicle torn apart and
another on it's side. Dispatchers quickly relayed the information to the
responding units.Within minutes,
the first emergency crews arrived on the scene and confirmed one person
entrapped in one vehicle and another in a pickup truck that was on it's
side. Crews quickly started a patient assessment while several other
rescuers started setting up to extricate. Unfortunately rescuers quickly
determined that two females that were traveling in the car had both succumb
to there injuries at the scene. A man that was traveling in that car as well
was trapped and critically injured.
Trenton and North Dade Firefighters worked
to extricate the man from the car and the man in the overturned pickup
truck. Meanwhile, EMS crews were rendering emergency treatment to the
victims. within minutes, both men were extricated from the wreckage and
loaded into ambulances. The man that was extricated from the car was rushed
to Erlanger Medical Center in Chattanooga in critical condition with life
threatening head injuries. The other man in the pickup truck was also rushed
to Erlanger Medical Center with serious injuries.
Highway 11 was shut down and traffic
rerouted for several hours while police investigated and wrecker crews
cleaned up the wreckage. The cause of the crash is under investigation by
the Georgia State Patrol.
Story and photos by Bill Carson
