IMPROVING PATIENT ACCESS AT EXTRICATION SCENES

摘要

Early on a cool october eve-ning, you are dispatched to a reported smoking vehicle, resulting from an accident On arrival, you find the situation is not what you had expected: Two vehicles were involved in a high-speed collision. One car, a 1999 four-door sedan, came to rest in the middle of the intersection after striking a 1996 four-door sedan in the two driver's side doors, sending the 1996 vehicle up on the front lawn of a residence on the comer, coming to rest after rolling over several times. The 1999 sedan sustained significant damage: The front of the vehicle was driven down to the road surface from the impact, and the passenger compartment was shortened from the impact, jamming all four doors and trapping all three occupants in the cab.