Two-vehicle rear-end crash on i-40 west with four injured, Cary NC
TrafficA rear-end collision occurred on I-40 West in Cary, NC, involving two vehicles. Four people in one car were injured, including a nine-year-old child with a head injury. Others reported chest and shoulder pain. The crash caused moderate damage and partially blocked lanes. Emergency responders assisted at the scene, prioritizing care for the child with the head injury.
Audio|Source: Cary Fire-Rescue
05:56
Transcript:
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23, this is the Titan's 3 coming in the westbound direction.
00:07
It's going to be inside lane.
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Trooper's already on scene.
00:11
Looks like rear-end,
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accident, moderate damage.
00:17
Okay.
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Bye.
00:33
Okay, here's from Latter 1.
00:50
Car 3 is on scene, two-car MVA.
00:54
One lane is the inside lane and shoulders blocks, two cars minor damage.
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Battagin 3B I-40 West Command.
01:04
Traffic's pretty slow, I've got IMAP on the scene with me.
01:07
I'll take one unit to assist me with patient care.
01:11
The truck is in command and needed one in unit for patient care.
01:23
Piscuit 21's clear here.
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Engine 23 from Robert 22.
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And incoming units on 41.
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I have four patients all in one car.
01:51
It's going to be minor damage to the front end of one.
01:56
Two complain of chest pain.
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One complaint of shoulder pain.
02:02
The chest pain is from the seatbelt, not from cardiac.
02:10
I'll take two fire units, one to block near the IMAX truck and the other one full pass the scene to help with patient care.
02:18
First two trucks is fine.
02:23
Not at the two cops, this slide 22 will proceed with it to 23.
02:29
Okay, thank you.
02:35
Matic unit responding on 41 to I-40 West.
02:43
Go ahead.
02:44
23 is approaching.
02:46
You still need a pull pass.
02:51
23, if you can get a round-eye map after just bust through that last one, you can come on up here and finish that shadow.
02:58
You're probably patient's going to be a 9-year-old in the back seat.
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She's got some head pains.
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Everybody else is going to be minor.
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She's got some possibly LLC.
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Only three copies.
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The 23, I'll take care.
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Central 36?
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36?
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Confirring false alarm, you can show us back in service.
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Carry from command.
03:36
What email is to respond? I couldn't hear a while ago.
03:41
Atic 65 as a route.
03:46
Copy. You copy you got four patients.
03:49
Those four patients are in the same car.
03:52
It's one grandmother and three grandchildren.
03:56
I'll let you decide on multiple units once you get here.
04:04
Now copy the traffic.
04:06
Did all of them want to be transported or just evaluated?
04:11
Evaluated, both the chest and pains are external.
04:15
They said they were wearing the seatbelts, but we got no airbags as the older vehicle.
04:19
One said to hit steering wheel level and said they hit the dash.
04:23
And then nine-year-old in the back seat is going to be your priority patient.
04:26
She's complaining of severe headache and I think she hit her head on the side window.
04:34
Yeah, we copy the traffic.
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Do all of them want to be transported or just evaluated?
04:40
I don't know.
04:43
We'll March the 23s with them right now.
04:45
We'll give you a size-up as soon as we can.
04:53
Yeah, you don't want to ask you so we need to know if you have another unit, because we're currently coming from Goldman Street right now.
05:01
Okay.
05:07
Medic, let's go with the fact that let's try and transport them off right now.
05:32
For fires,
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note,
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can you go ahead and add another unit to this call?
05:41
Before, you need ALS or BLS?
05:47
All right, is that ALS, please.
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60,000 CEMS control, we copy direct, we'll add you a truck.
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Carrey, we copy.
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Number thank you.
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