MVA Handled
in Washingtonville
 

With the Orange County Firefighter's Parade set to step off, most units were at line up when a motor vehicle collision was dispatched at 1348 on Route 208 and Moffat Road in the Washingtonville fire district. E-582 was on the road in a matter of seconds and arrived to find a van into a tree with four subjects inside. The crew on E-582 worked to stabilize the vehicle and put the combination hydraulic extrication tool into operation. R-581 from Washingtonville also responded and once their Rescue arrived, the crew from E-582 also set up for stabilization. Four patients were removed from the vehicle and turned over to EMS. The EMS crews requested two helicopters to transport the patients. The Congers Fire Department, from Rockland County (covering for South Blooming Grove), set up the landing zone near the accident scene.

 

-Fire News photo by Gary Hearn

Brooklyn
School Bus MVA
Results in Arrest

On November 7, 2011, the driver of a SUV came into the intersection at Rockaway Blvd and Ave N and crashed into a full-size school bus. The bus veered off of the road and crashed into a day care center. The school bus was on fire as firefighters of the Fire Department of the City of New York arrived. The fire was put out and the driver of the SUV was arrested at the scene. Both drivers of the SUV and the school bus were given medical attention for their injuries.

 

-Fire News photo by Bill Bennett

Car Flees Albany Police and Crashes

On Sunday, October 30, 2011, a motorist, driving a stolen Toyota SUV and fleeing Albany Police, t-boned a BMW broadside in the middle of the intersection of North Main and Western Avenue, sending the BMW spinning of the road into a home on North Main Avenue, trapping both the driver and passenger in the vehicle. The SUV continued slamming into two more parked vehicles before it stopped. The driver was able to kick his way out of the mangled SUV, fleeing police for three blocks, where he was taken into custody in the backyard of a Morris Street home, after Albany police had setup a perimeter around the Price Chopper Supermarket.

 

-Fire News photo by Tom Heffernan

Fatal MVA Occurs
in Niagara Falls
 

On October 18, 2011, a man known to many on Main Street in the Falls died after a late night traffic accident. He died after his SUV hit the back of a pickup truck in the 1500 block of Walnut Avenue. Johnson’s 13-year-old daughter was in the Jeep with her dad and told police that he was trying to reach Niagara Falls Memorial Medical Center because he was having a severe asthma attack. An autopsy has been scheduled to determine the cause of Johnson’s death. Investigators said his injuries from the crash did not appear to be serious.

 

 -Fire News photo by Larry Kensinger