Tallman, NY +NY State Thruway Traffic Alert+
Rockland County, Tallman, NY +NY State Thruway Traffic Alert+ A motor vehicle accident on the south bound of the New York State Thruway at M/M 28 with one vehicle that overturned, is causing traffic delays.
NY State Police on the scene requesting EMS for one aided that's trapped inside the vehicle, Rockland Paramedics are enroute.
posted by VOS IZ NEIAS @ 10/09/2006 08:41:00 AM
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Cops: Seat belt saved woman in Ramapo crash
THE JOURNAL NEWS
RAMAPO — Police said it was the seat belt that saved Myung Lee from death after her sport utility vehicle rolled over a guide rail yesterday morning and ended upside down on the southbound Thruway.
"That's what saved her life," said New York State Police Trooper Paul Desdunes, describing the crash that totaled Lee's 2002 Mitsubishi Montero but left her with only some bruises on her left hand. "Absolutely."
Police and emergency workers were sent to the Thruway near the Hemion Road overpass shortly after 8:15 a.m. to find about 100 feet of guide rail smashed and the Montero with damage to its front and top. Desdunes said when he arrived, Lee, of Northvale, N.J., was out of the vehicle and was being helped by paramedics, but that she was alert and told him she was wearing her seat belt.
She had been driving north on the Thruway and changed lanes to pass a truck when she lost control, the SUV struck the rail and flipped over to the other side of the road. One lane on each side was closed for nearly an hour while the accident was cleaned up and the Mitsubishi towed to a Sloatsburg garage. Lee was treated for minor injuries to her hand at Good Samaritan Hospital.
Speed appeared to be a factor in the accident, Desdunes said. Lee was not ticketed and no charges appeared to be pending, he said.
Timothy P. Egan, operations chief for Rockland Paramedics, said he has been a paramedic for more than 20 years and said that seat belts and air bags have had a tremendous impact on safety.
Rockland Paramedics Mark Donovan and April Tantillo were at the accident yesterday morning and told him they saw massive damage to the side front end of the van, and that they had expected the driver to have been injured.
"They saw the type of damage and she only had some abrasions from broken glass," Egan said. "Had she not been wearing her seat belt, she would have been worse injured. She possibly could have been ejected, and that typically causes fatalities."
Egan said he remembered the first accident he attended where an air bag was deployed. It was 1987 and the driver walked out of a bad crash, went up the road to call her father, and was walking back to her car when Egan and other paramedics arrived. He said he and the other paramedics were astounded she was barely injured considering how badly her car was wrecked.
"Before air bags and seat belts, people would be much more severely injured in relatively minor accidents," he said. "As soon as people started driving cars with air bags and seat belts, the severity of injuries have lessened. When people wear seat belts, it makes a huge difference. It's such a simple thing that makes such a big difference."
Christopher McDonough, 17, of Croton-on-Hudson died Aug. 21 in a high-speed crash in Montrose in which his 2001 Volvo hit a center median and rolled into oncoming traffic. He wasn't wearing a seat belt, police said, and was ejected.
Dilsa Brown, 61, of Yonkers, was killed Wednesday after the SUV her daughter was driving back from a night out struck a divider near the Yonkers city line. Her daughter, who was wearing a seat belt, was not seriously injured. Brown was unbuckled.
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