Accident by Sheetz
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This one time my momma drove her old beat-up Ford truck (no Chevys in our family) down Chancellor's Run Road and a cop pulled her over and said "Ma'am you were going awfully fast" and my momma said, "Well, ossifer, dontcha understand that I was tryin' to get to the sale at Wal-Mart?" Well that copper turned on his lights and you woulda thought it was a blue light special as he hauled a$$ down the road to make room for my momma to get to Wal-Mart.
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Sounded really bad... glad I was not stuck in the traffic... but they did end up flying someone out and they had to extricate one from a vehicle and one had been ejected. Never a good sign...
LPMEDIC
Doin the duty for you....
I know they flew one person out, but as soon as they were airborne they had to land at St Mary's Hospital due to weather. 2 others taken to hospital via ambulance. From what info I could get it didn't seem to be life threatening. I was on my way to class so my info on this one came vis the scanner.
LPMEDIC
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Not true in Md... THe Medivacs are not funded per call they respond to. We have protocols that help us determine when we need to call for the Helo. i.e. burns, amputations, falls from heights, things like that., In the case of car accidents we have guidlines for that as well, such as how much intrusion is there into passenger compartment, roll overs, death in vehicle of other passengers, etc..... If the patient or incident meets the requirements then we call for helo, most of time its just for the "mechanism" of the accident. THe MEDICVAC is a valuable asset to have and we are very lucky to have it. especially since the closest Trauma Center is over an hour away by car. I would rather be safe than sorry when calling for the Helo, if it turns out that the injuries didn't really need it, then oh well. .
Elle
Happy Camper!
On that subject, I heard (don't remember where though) there was a senator that wanted to make the helicopter for state police only and that if it were an emergency medical problem you would have to pay to use the Medivacs, just like private choppers. But I never saw anything about it introduced this year. Any one else hear anything about this????
LPMEDIC
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Actually,
There they just revised the system to include the commercial helicopters like Medstar, Statmedivac, etc... to augment the system in case the state police Medivac is not available since the call volumes are on the rise. Believe me, its a very comforting to know we have access to the Medivac system..
There they just revised the system to include the commercial helicopters like Medstar, Statmedivac, etc... to augment the system in case the state police Medivac is not available since the call volumes are on the rise. Believe me, its a very comforting to know we have access to the Medivac system..
Re: Hey LPMEDIC...
I would call the local VRS and inquire, maybe a nice donation would go a long way toward getting them to assist (at least covering their costs for fuel).Originally posted by kwillia
If a critical person has to be moved to a DC hospital via ambulance... do you know of any other way rather than using those rip-off private ambulance companies that charge $932 dollars for a one-way trip from Leonardtown to Washington Hospital center? None of them are considered "in-service" for BC/BS insurance...
LPMEDIC
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Re: Hey LPMEDIC...
I sent ya a PM with more info.
Originally posted by kwillia
If a critical person has to be moved to a DC hospital via ambulance... do you know of any other way rather than using those rip-off private ambulance companies that charge $932 dollars for a one-way trip from Leonardtown to Washington Hospital center? None of them are considered "in-service" for BC/BS insurance...
I sent ya a PM with more info.
An access road! Now there's an idea!
You want to go N<->S, take Rt. 235. You want to stop off at Lowe's, or Target, or K-Mart, or Target, etc....get off onto the access road and cruise down. That would eliminate a lot of lights on 235 (which I thought was one of the purposes of the original construction..not new ones!) and those ever present stop and goes and merging...
Been there, done that...
Virginia Beach Blvd in Virginia Beach used to be like that...main road with access roads on each side for access to local businesses, main road intended to be thru traffic only. Worked out so great that they just finished spending millions getting rid of the access roads! I think it doubled the accident rate when they had them.
Virginia Beach Blvd in Virginia Beach used to be like that...main road with access roads on each side for access to local businesses, main road intended to be thru traffic only. Worked out so great that they just finished spending millions getting rid of the access roads! I think it doubled the accident rate when they had them.
CableChick
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K_Jo said:This happened on my birthday.
what about mine?
