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It seems like maybe calling this my first "off-duty" incident is a bit wrong, because technically, I've never been on duty...having recently completed EMT-B class, and having not yet received my certification card or anything...but anyway.
My wife and I, and one of our two kids had just parked in front of the library at a local shopping center, and I was getting my son out of the back seat. I heard a very brief tire squeal, a crash, and then a constant horn. I figured it was an accident at the nearby intersection, which I couldn't actually see from where I was due to trees and other buildings. So I ran off in that direction, saw there was a T-bone MVC in the intersection, and approached it.
Two vehicles, both small SUVs, were involved. The vertical leg of the T was occupied by a woman (mid-late 20s) with a boy about 5 or 6. The other vehical (the horizontal cross part of the T) was occupied by only one woman. Both vehicles had dual front airbags, all of them deployed.
I approached the single-occupant vehicle first, partly because it was more convenient to my approach, and partly because I could see the woman just sitting there, head slightly down, not moving. But she was conscious and alert. At this time the other woman was getting out and I saw the kid, and from a quick visual impression I could tell there was nothing seriously wrong with them.
Next I made sure someone was calling 911 (I didn't have a cell phone with me), then I made sure both ignitions were off. The sole occupant of the vehicle I approached first (the horizontal cross part of the T) couldn't get out of her vehicle at first, because the driver's side door was smashed in a bit, and the doors were locked but wouldn't unlock. The car had power locks, and the switch wasn't working, and I couldn't find a manual lock to release. I tried both sides, and reached in to the back doors, but I guess the power was out in the car, because the locks wouldn't release. But her passenger-side window was all the way down, so she climbed out of that.
I stayed there for a minute until emergency vehicles started arriving. First was the police, actually an MP from Ft. Meade, which this happened right outside (the woman I approached first was actually in uniform, and the second woman, the one with the kid, was an army wife). County cops showed up next, followed by an ambulance, then a fire engine.
The only injurries were a minor abrasion on the wrist and contusion on the left arm of the woman with the kid, I suspected these were from the airbag, which the EMT I pointed this out to also suspected. Other than that, aside from the mental dazing, there were no physical injurries.
My wife and I, and one of our two kids had just parked in front of the library at a local shopping center, and I was getting my son out of the back seat. I heard a very brief tire squeal, a crash, and then a constant horn. I figured it was an accident at the nearby intersection, which I couldn't actually see from where I was due to trees and other buildings. So I ran off in that direction, saw there was a T-bone MVC in the intersection, and approached it.
Two vehicles, both small SUVs, were involved. The vertical leg of the T was occupied by a woman (mid-late 20s) with a boy about 5 or 6. The other vehical (the horizontal cross part of the T) was occupied by only one woman. Both vehicles had dual front airbags, all of them deployed.
I approached the single-occupant vehicle first, partly because it was more convenient to my approach, and partly because I could see the woman just sitting there, head slightly down, not moving. But she was conscious and alert. At this time the other woman was getting out and I saw the kid, and from a quick visual impression I could tell there was nothing seriously wrong with them.
Next I made sure someone was calling 911 (I didn't have a cell phone with me), then I made sure both ignitions were off. The sole occupant of the vehicle I approached first (the horizontal cross part of the T) couldn't get out of her vehicle at first, because the driver's side door was smashed in a bit, and the doors were locked but wouldn't unlock. The car had power locks, and the switch wasn't working, and I couldn't find a manual lock to release. I tried both sides, and reached in to the back doors, but I guess the power was out in the car, because the locks wouldn't release. But her passenger-side window was all the way down, so she climbed out of that.
I stayed there for a minute until emergency vehicles started arriving. First was the police, actually an MP from Ft. Meade, which this happened right outside (the woman I approached first was actually in uniform, and the second woman, the one with the kid, was an army wife). County cops showed up next, followed by an ambulance, then a fire engine.
The only injurries were a minor abrasion on the wrist and contusion on the left arm of the woman with the kid, I suspected these were from the airbag, which the EMT I pointed this out to also suspected. Other than that, aside from the mental dazing, there were no physical injurries.
