Saturday Feb 16th, just before noon my family and I drove upon a head on MVC (motor vehicle collision). We were taking my two girls, under 2, to visit their grandparents for the weekend when we encountered this tragedy.
A family of 5, mom, dad and three kids, in a minivan collided almost head on with a Ford F350. I arrived on scene to the dad trapped in the vans drivers seat and his youngest, two year old daughter behind him in her carseat, crying and covered in blood. Mom was in back, sorrowfully panicked at the sight of her youngest daughter. And the other two kids were moved safely to another vehicle, they were physically uninjured.
I was the first medical (bystander) to arrive. It is horrible to come upon such things at an time, worse when your trained to do this and are there without an ambulance. I am a paramedic and this was the hardest situation I have faced in my career so far.
The little girl suffered severe head trauma, she had a severe avulsion (skin cut or tear) across her forehead. I could intimately describe it further but am sure most do not wish to read it. She was covered in blood and crying hysterically. I assessed her injuries and realized this little girl is critical with a head injury and attempted to get a helicopter (STARS) to fly out to the scene along with the responding ambulances. I dressed her head injury and tried to clean the blood off her face so her mom wouldn't have to see her child that way. I reassured mom that her daughter's intense crying is a good sign for her and that her little girl needed her moms touch and hand in hers.
She ended up going by ground to hospital with a good friend who was working on the ambulance that day. Her dad was extricated from the van and taken to hospital as well with non-life threatening injuries.
It was hard to treat such an innocent child who suffered severe trauma as a result of the collision. My own girls waiting patiently for me in our van parked at a distance back on the side of the road. After all this I held my own two year old girl close and tight and wept.
I am so sad right now for the little girl critically injured in this MVC. I have been praying very hard for her, so she may survive and that her pain is eased. Such a child doesn't understand these horrible parts of life and it pains me to see this.
I did all I could without my ambulance, having only a first aid kit. And today I pray for her more. I ask that you join with me in prayng for this little girls life and recovery. And for her family that they remain whole and have each other for years to come.
A family of 5, mom, dad and three kids, in a minivan collided almost head on with a Ford F350. I arrived on scene to the dad trapped in the vans drivers seat and his youngest, two year old daughter behind him in her carseat, crying and covered in blood. Mom was in back, sorrowfully panicked at the sight of her youngest daughter. And the other two kids were moved safely to another vehicle, they were physically uninjured.
I was the first medical (bystander) to arrive. It is horrible to come upon such things at an time, worse when your trained to do this and are there without an ambulance. I am a paramedic and this was the hardest situation I have faced in my career so far.
The little girl suffered severe head trauma, she had a severe avulsion (skin cut or tear) across her forehead. I could intimately describe it further but am sure most do not wish to read it. She was covered in blood and crying hysterically. I assessed her injuries and realized this little girl is critical with a head injury and attempted to get a helicopter (STARS) to fly out to the scene along with the responding ambulances. I dressed her head injury and tried to clean the blood off her face so her mom wouldn't have to see her child that way. I reassured mom that her daughter's intense crying is a good sign for her and that her little girl needed her moms touch and hand in hers.
She ended up going by ground to hospital with a good friend who was working on the ambulance that day. Her dad was extricated from the van and taken to hospital as well with non-life threatening injuries.
It was hard to treat such an innocent child who suffered severe trauma as a result of the collision. My own girls waiting patiently for me in our van parked at a distance back on the side of the road. After all this I held my own two year old girl close and tight and wept.
I am so sad right now for the little girl critically injured in this MVC. I have been praying very hard for her, so she may survive and that her pain is eased. Such a child doesn't understand these horrible parts of life and it pains me to see this.
I did all I could without my ambulance, having only a first aid kit. And today I pray for her more. I ask that you join with me in prayng for this little girls life and recovery. And for her family that they remain whole and have each other for years to come.
