Major Extrication Assist To Station 63

Early Thursday morning at 0545 hrs. Station 63 was dispatched to a class 1 vehicle accident in the area of Lincoln Highway East/Oakview Rd, PD arrived and advised that there is a vehicle that left the roadway and struck several parked vehicles to the rear of Witmer Garage with a female occupant that is impaled through the abdomen by a piece of metal. The incident was then upgraded to a Vehicle accident with entrapment adding Engine 62-1, and Rescue 48. Duty Chief 63 arrived next and stated there is a single occupant impaled by a trailer hitch of a boat trailer that the vehicle struck! The hitch was pushed through the engine of the vehicle and impaled the driver and then through the back of the seat, rescue operations where initiated and crews worked to remove the doors and roof of the vehicle first so they could access the patient better, crews then went to work stabilizing and then cutting the hitch, extreme caution was needed to minimize vibrations of the hitch and also to keep the metal cooled down as the where cutting. The extrication was complete at 0648 hrs. and EMS transported the patient who was miraculously awake and talking  to a local hospital, during investigations it was determined that the accident actually occurred around 1100-1130 hrs but was not discovered until 0545 hrs