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Wells and her passenger, Younger, suffered serious injuries.
During the course of the investigation it came out that both patients were walking around and talking on their cell phones after the crash. Neither of them was seriously injured and Wells' attorney has publicly stated that all of the life-threatening and crippling injuries see suffered were as a result of the helicopter crash. Of course, MSP said it was "serious injuries" because according to state protocol at the time (and more or less, today) they did meet the criteria for that based on antiquated and misguided supposition about the predictive nature of damage to vehicles. They were flown because of bad protocols and the lack of a desire of the ground EMS providers to be inconvenienced by driving to a hospital.