HAMILTON COUNTY, Tenn - Sunday, February 3,2007 - 6:15 am - Firefighters
with the Tri-Community Volunteer Fire Department and medics with Hamilton
County EMS were dispatched to an accident with injuries and entrapment in
the 9800 block of East Brainerd Road. Dispatch also advised the responding
units that the 9-1-1 caller had reported one possible fatality.
Within minutes the first crew was on the
scene and confirmed one fatality. However they also reported another person
critically injured and seriously trapped. The firefighters quickly requested
the Life Force air ambulance from Erlanger Medical Center.
Firefighters worked quickly to free the
trapped man from the wreckage. Meanwhile the air ambulance was landed about
a mile away in a Bi-Lo grocery market parking lot. As the man was freed he
was loaded into an ambulance and rushed to the temporary landing zone. The
man was flown to Erlanger Medical Center in critical condition.
The exact cause of the crash is under
investigation by the Hamilton County Sheriffs Department, however speed is
believed to be a factor. The young woman that was fatally injured was
identified as
17-year-old Lee Meredith Birmingham.
Story and photos by Bill Carson
