Elderly man suffers severe arm injury and drives to ER, Marion VA
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Medical EmergencyAs discussed during the dispatch call, emergency crews were dispatched near King Lane off Scratch Gravel Road after reports of an elderly man who had cut a main artery in his arm and was driving himself to the hospital in a maroon Honda CRV. A search was issued but the individual was later seen arriving safely at the hospital where he walked into the emergency room.
Audio|Heard on: Smyth County Public Safety
Listen to dispatch call
02:9
Transcript:
00:00
You guys be able to stage in the area of King Lane off of Scratch Gravel Road in reference to an eighty-year-old male who cut a main artery in his arm and has left the scene trying to drive himself to the hospital? We're bolo in that area.
00:24
Medic One, Medic One Three.
00:31
Medic One from Medic One Three.
00:35
Go ahead.
00:38
We'll go ahead and handle that.
00:41
Copy.
00:46
Medic One Three, if you could stage at the end of Scratch Gravel Road in town.
00:55
Understood.
01:01
Medic One Three, he's going to be in a maroon Honda CRV.
01:09
Trying to find him.
01:12
Smyth County,
01:13
We just passed him.
01:14
He just passed the car wash in town with his hazards on.
01:20
He's almost to the hospital.
01:26
Ten four, thank you.
01:31
And make sure he makes it to the hospital.
01:38
Copy.
01:44
Say Medic One Three.
01:51
They're in quarters.
01:56
About thirteen.
01:57
County Medic One.
02:01
Medic One.
02:03
That vehicle safely made it to the ER.
02:05
We just saw the patient walking into the front entrance of the ER.
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Location mentioned:
Radio Hill Rd, Marion, VA 24354
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