Bystanders Assist Injured Motorist Following Crash In El Cajon
July 25, 2009
Filed under Press Releases
Photo taken by El Cajon Fire Division Chief Rick Sitta
Just before 3:00 p.m. Friday afternoon, a single vehicle crash occurred in the six hundred block of South Mollison Avenue in El Cajon. According to El Cajon Police, the vehicle was apparently traveling at a high rate of speed when the 84-year-old male driver lost control knocking over fire a hydrant, damaging a high-energy electrical utility box, then flipping over upside down. The driver was then trapped in the vehicle with extensive injuries.
Before emergency personnel arrived, bystanders noticed that the trapped victim’s head was under the water flowing from the knocked-over fire hydrant. The bystanders flipped the vehicle onto its side allowing the severely injured victim to breathe. Rescue workers from El Cajon and La Mesa Fire Departments extricated the victim using the Jaws of Life in about twelve minutes. A Santee Fire Department Medic United transported the victim to a local trauma center.
