Accident with death on Lenora Church Road

Sad news to share - I've been hearing about an accident that occurred on Lenora Church Road in Snellville on Friday, January 8th.

I don't know any firm details. Have heard that a Walton EMC truck may have been involved and that a person was killed. When I hear more definitive details, I will share the information on this blog.

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

Accident Snellville US78 near Summit Chase and South Crestview

Well, after posting to the blog yesterday about driving safety, there was a really bad accident on US78 near Summit Chase this morning. What, not everybody is reading this blog?!? Just kidding....but seriously, I know there were injuries and I hope that there wasn't anything life threatening and that the hurt people are on the mend.

Ironically, one of the things that I really hate - scraping frost and ice off my car windshield, may have kept me out of that accident. Every annoying thing that happened this morning probably kept me from being right in that spot at the time of the accident. So I am going to make a mental note on a piece of paper* to be thankful for life's little annoyances.

*one of my dad's phrases