Early this morning, just as the sun hinted its first light, Huntersville firefighters responded to an urgent situation. Units from Stations 1, 3, and Concord’s Station 10 were dispatched to a scene of vehicular destruction in the 15900 Block of Poplar Tent Church Road.
Huntersville Fire Department reported that Engine 3 was swiftly on the scene, their crew ready to carefully, yet quickly, extricate the driver. They had to use their tools to remove steadily the driver’s door, a barrier once meant for protection turned into a restraint by the crash’s violent dance. Once freed, the driver was transferred into the waiting embrace of MEDIC for transport, their condition a testament to the impact’s severity. “Our Engine 3 arrived first with an F150 in the front yard of a home. The driver was entrapped in the drivers seat after striking a tree at a high speed. E3 extricated the driver by removing the drivers’ door,” Hunterville Fire Department describes the situation.
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