Within Minutes, Two firefighters and a medic unit with Life Guard was on the scene. Rescuers quickly started rendering aid two the two victims. One of the victims was a young male heavily entrapped in a small KIA, The other victim was a woman possibly in her 30’s with rather serious injuries entrapped in a full size pickup truck. The young man in the KIA was extremely critical and was severely trapped, due to the extent of his injuries rescuers quickly called for an air ambulance from Erlanger Medical Center.

In short order, Trenton Rescue 1 arrived on the scene, followed by Trenton Engine 10 and North Dade Rescue 4. The two rescue units quickly started working together with all of there rescue tools to attempt to free the trapped young man. Meanwhile, Trenton Engine 10 started extricating the woman in the pickup truck. The woman was freed rather quickly after crews cut the door off the pickup. However, The young man was a little more difficult to free. After crews cut the roof off the KIA and removed three of the doors, they still had to roll the dash board and push the firewall and door jam to free his entangled body.

After the young man was freed he was loaded into a Life Force Helicopter and flown to Erlanger Medical Center. The woman victim from the pickup truck was also taken to Erlanger by ambulance. The cause of the crash is still under investigation, however, witnesses report the woman in the pickup truck was traveling the wrong way, north in the southbound lanes, causing the crash. A truck driver traveling north on Interstate 59 was also said to have reported the vehicle traveling the wrong way on his CB moments before the crash.