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Firefighter-Paramedics treat a 25-yar old male patient on the shoulder of Hwy-40 after being ejected in the car seen in the foreground
Christmas Eve afternoon at 4:00 PM proved to be a busy one for Golden Valley Firefighter-Paramedics who treated the driver of this compact car after he was ejected out the sunroof of his eastbound vehicle, landing on the edge of the highway nearly 100-feet from where his car came to rest on its wheels. The 25-year old male driver who was the only occupant, who remained conscious, admitted to not wearing his seatbelt and was thrown from the vehicle as it rolled on Hwy-40 about Mile-Post 37. The patient was transported to KRMC as a Level-1 trauma patient due to the mechanism of injury and speeds involved. Chief O’Donohue reminds motorists to always wear your seat-belts that are designed to keep you within the safety zone of the interior of the car. DPS remained on-scene to determine the cause of the accident.
