OCALA, FL. (352 Today) — For Max Gagnon, July 22 was nearly his last day alive.
That evening, Gagnon was involved in a devastating single-vehicle crash in Marion County. According to HCA Florida Ocala Hospital’s Facebook page, Firefighters with Marion County Fire Rescue found his truck crushed between two trees. The impact had hurled him into the passenger seat, and his body was pinned inside the mangled vehicle.
It took 15 minutes for firefighters to extricate Gagnon from the wreckage. He was transported with life-threatening injuries to HCA Florida Ocala Hospital’s Level I trauma center, the only facility in the region equipped to provide the complex, life-saving care he urgently needed…