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Originally posted by LarryBible
......... Over the years I've seen cars that just looked like no one could have survived only to find that they walked or stumbled away. Then there others with seemingly minor damage in which there was a fatality.......
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Yep. Working as an EMT then Paramedic, I saw this a lot. We'd roll up on something that I just KNEW I'd be calling the patient and just heading back to the station. Look around for a patient in the car and no one's there and no blood. Turns out, they're standing around with the onlookers.
Then other fender benders I've rolled on that had completely intact pass compartments and a patient with a torn aorta (DOA) or even worse, one that had a ruptured spleen that I "almost" let walk.
Was called on a horse vs car MVA once, dusk/rainy, when we arrived, the car, a honda civic, was crushed in like king kong stepped on it. Horse had been shot by a passerby (most people who live rurally here are smart enough to carry a firearm in the vehicle.) Figured we'd be extracting a DOA. No one inside, no blood. She was standing around joking with the people who stopped to help.
Her story was, just before she hit the horse, she saw it run right towards her and she knew she'd go out of control if she tried to avoid it, so she just braked and bent over toward the passenger seat. Roof and windshield crushed into her, but she had enough space that she didn't get hurt. The people who stopped to help pried the door open and helped her out. Not a scratch. We still X-ported her for eval.