Snellville 78 Accident Update

I have more details on the accident that happened yesterday morning on Highway 78 near South Crestview and Summit Chase.

You can hear the Gwinnett Fire and EMS dealing with the accident on the ScanGwinnett Feed Archive HERE but I listened and made some notes, so if you don't have time to listen, you can just read my notes here in the blog.

Select Gwinnett Fire & EMS, then select date of 11/29/2007 and select time of 7:37 to 7:52 am.
About 2:55 minutes in, you will hear the EMS personnel reporting in details of Patient 1 and Patient 2.

Patient 1 was a male, hit at the side/front of his car. He suffered an open fracture of the Femur.
An open fracture is when the bone has protruded from the skin of a patient. The Femur is the bone between the hip joint and the knee. EMS stated no head trauma and no chest injury.

Patient 2 was a 40-45 year old female driving a Honda CRV. She had front impact. Possible nose fracture.

Both these patients were pinned in the vehicles, so it did take some time for them to be extricated before they could be fully evaluated.

The patients were taken to Gwinnett Medical Center in Lawrenceville.

During all this, EMS on scene had some radio communication problems with dispatchers - low volume noted, but dispatchers quickly got on a portable unit of some kind, and it is good to know how reactive (but not panicky) our emergency personnel are.

There is probably a lot more information, if you listen to feed archive of additional times for that date.

Yesterday's blog post about the Snellville accident can be seen here: LINK