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INNOCENT MAN DEAD, 2 INJURED AFTER ROAD RACE |
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September
08 2006
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As Engine 501A, Wagon, and Tower 501 were taking up
from a first due box, Prince William County units
were operating on a serious crash on Sudley Road at
Coverstone Drive. At 2126 hours, Sudley Command
requested three helicopters bringing Engine 501A for
the LZ. They arrived as two of the three helicopters
were cancelled. According to the Manassas Journal
Messenger, two vehicles were drag racing northbound
on Sudley Road when they brushed up against each
other, sending one into the median at high speed. It
then struck a signal pole, entered the southbound
lanes, and collided with a vehicle that was not
involved with the drag race. The crash caused one of
the vehicles to catch fire. Bystanders grabbed fire
extinguishers from the nearby gas station and
extinguished the fire before units arrived. Crews
from Company 511 arrived to find several patients at
the scattered crash site, one seriously pinned.
Truck 511 immediately began extrication of the
innocent driver who was barely alive and suffering
from extremely serious traumatic head injuries among
others. They quickly removed the roof and began to
cut the steering wheel when the patient was
pronounced dead. The other innocent victim, a
passenger in the vehicle that was struck, was found
collapsed on the street. It was determined that the
patient had not been ejected but was suffering from
serious injuries including head trauma. That patient
was flown to a local trauma center. The third
patient, the intoxicated driver of the drag racing
vehicle that went across the median, was also found
out of the vehicle. That patient was transported ALS,
due to mechanism of injury, to the local hospital.
The driver of the other drag racing vehicle was not
injured. Crews from the City cleared at 2200. |
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