Vehicle rolls off hill onto highway with injured driver


A vehicle rolled off a hill and landed on the highway below. The driver, a man in his early 30s, was found awake with a head injury. Rescuers are searching for other possible passengers and working to retrieve the driver from a cliff edge.
Audio|Source: Mesa County and Grand Junction Police, Fire and EMS
02:52
Transcript:
Copy, you'll be around with the ambulance 92. That's 365 of mile marker 55. We had a report of a rollover and a male with bleeding from the head a little bit. He's conscious and breathing about 32 years old. Break. 2636, just a small update. We're still having hard communications with them, so lines aren't working. They're saying that they believe that the vehicle rolled off of a hill on a road above Highway 65 and landed on Highway 65. And they don't see a patient currently, but there's about 10 people that appear to be around the vehicle and that maybe it came from somewhere above the highway when it got down to the road level. And now they're saying they got the patient out of the water. Do you want me to still make sure care flights responding to stage? Any further, we'll still notice not otherwise. Have an in-air standby? Copy next trace. It's 507-82, again 507-82. Just by an ambulance sign. No problem found at this time. We're still in the same. Copy it, next race. The patient is down. The patient is down over the edge of the cliff. He's awake and oriented. We're going to drive back around. Not sure if he was ejected out or if he jumped off the edge. But we're going to be redeploying down below the cliff to see if we can retrieve in. He is responsive at this time. Continue, careful. Copy. It looks like they have an ATA of 48 minutes. 636. This looks like we have squad on scene. He says there is a patient over the edge of a cliff, awake and oriented. They are going to be continuing to try to make contact with him. Vehicle is going to be on its roof. They're still attempting to locate other passengers. You're welcome, 1927.
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CO-65, Colorado
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