Rollover

I was heading to SF with my Girl Scouts this morning, and as we were passing from Vacaville to Fairfield (a kind of no-mans land between the two cities), noticed a vehicle that had left the freeway and landed on the frontage road. He had obviously rolled the car a few times. The girls saw it too, the prevailing comment, "Oh, my God."

I pulled over immediately as far as I could on the shoulder, told my girls to stay in the car buckled up, grabbed my jump bag, and went over to the car...

Initially, there were three people there. Took me a second to figure out who was in the car. It was a single occupant accident, and even though the guy rolled the car three times, HE WALKED AWAY FROM IT! Upset, yes. Slight injuries, yes. Major injuries? Well, aside from the potential of internal injuries due to the mechanism of the crash, he had no head, neck, back, or extremity injuries. Now, he was pumped on adrenalin, so I can't be sure, but I'd be willing to bet he got cleared at the hospital in record time.

Oh, CHP dispatch: PLEASE EDUCATE YOUR DISPATCHERS. When I tell them that a vehicle rolled over multiple times, they should not ask, "Is anyone injured?" Send the friggin' paramedics out, just to be sure, PLEASE.

I hung around until fire got there, then handed him off ASAP to get to my girls. I was really concerned about them on the freeway, and rubberneckers hitting them. We talked about the whole thing. I think a few of them are interested in emergency medicine now. :-)