Your most bizarre or funniest car, plane, train, boat accident?

Not one that I dealt with, but my instructor was called to an incident where a 20-some y/o male had his foot entangled in the Segway wheel well... Don't know anything beyond some phalangeal fxs on the metatarsal in question.
 
Got toned to a MVA- car vs. tree. Heard the beeeeeeeeeeeeeep of the horn from a 1/4 mile away and figured we had a bad one. Arrived on scene to find a Fiat convertable wedged perfectly between two trees. The car was compressed to the point that the driver's shoulders were both touching the doors; the car was about 2 ft wide. The car was also crunched longitudinally so his chest was touching the steering wheel, causing all the racket. Driver was totally entrapped, but CAO x 4 and thoroughly relaxed via ETOH. His only concern was that we made sure to not scratch the paint because it was a new car. He voiced this while we were removing the doors with the Hurst tool. Didn't mind we were dissecting his car, just don't hurt the paint. He was transported and released (to the S.O.) without injury, except for a bloody nose. Chalked it up to the good Lord lovin' on the stupid...
 
Stopped on my own one night...

Car wedged between utility pole and old low concrete bridge abuttment at the front bumper, wheels on steep muddy grass.
Young lady was driving home in fog on two lane country road. Old little concrete bridge had a white reflector on the right abuttment, left side one gone. The power pole had a reflector the same level and color as the abuttment. She thought they were further away instead of too close together, lucky she was slowed down for the fog. Gave her a ride home, I imagine her dad (his car) was not too happy.

Anyone remember how the older minivans used to flip over if you slammed on the brakes then yanked the wheel? (Jeep Cherokees, too).
 
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Not on duty for this: http://www.emtlife.com/showthread.php?t=12738
but this is what I hear. (FD tones) "Fire District 4 respond to the intersection of A St. and 1st Ave. for a structure fire, fully involved, unknown occupants." (Followed by Ambulance tones) "XYZ ambulance respond to the intersection of A St. and 1st Ave. for a possible vehicle accident and to stand by for a fully involved sructure fire."

???????????

Turns out there was an old Chevy Sub parked halfway in the front of the house that hadn't been there the day before, I guess the caller assumed the rig had crashed into the house. That incident is under investigation at the moment as the house has been abandoned for some time. I don't beleive there was anyone in the vehicle. I sure hope not anyhow!
 
A guy steals a pizza delivery car which, naturally, was left running outside a delivery. Said car thief leaves in his newly pilfered ride, and a couple miles away, spots a state trooper parked at a convenience store. The dirt bag wrongly assumes the trooper is waiting for him, and accelerates to nearly 90 MPH and into my town. I (the local police) get a call for a rollover MVA. Upon arrival, the vehicle is a twisted pile of upside down metal after the guy hit a stone wall at 80-90 mph and rolled the car. Witnesses are yelling that he crawled out and ran into the woods carrying a backpack. To make a long story short, after I chased him through the woods, swamp, and with the help of K-9, and the air unit, he's caught. He suffers NO INJURY, aside from being a little chilly from the swamp, and a few scrapes from bushes. He goes straight to jail...
 
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See, rollovers hurt less than sliders.

............;)
 
Excuse me while I find a spatula to scrape my jaw off the floor with

Tincanfireman said:
Got toned to a MVA- car vs. tree. Heard the beeeeeeeeeeeeeep of the horn from a 1/4 mile away and figured we had a bad one. Arrived on scene to find a Fiat convertable wedged perfectly between two trees. The car was compressed to the point that the driver's shoulders were both touching the doors; the car was about 2 ft wide. The car was also crunched longitudinally so his chest was touching the steering wheel, causing all the racket. Driver was totally entrapped, but CAO x 4 and thoroughly relaxed via ETOH. His only concern was that we made sure to not scratch the paint because it was a new car. He voiced this while we were removing the doors with the Hurst tool. Didn't mind we were dissecting his car, just don't hurt the paint. He was transported and released (to the S.O.) without injury, except for a bloody nose. Chalked it up to the good Lord lovin' on the stupid...
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Or reverse darwinism, perhaps. That's absolutely incredible, and quite hilarious that he'd be concerned about the paint getting scratched after crushing the whole car like a soda can. Oh, alcohol, where would we be without you?
 
just a really dead guy and a lot of porn.
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That I ROFL then thought about it... its very very disturbing.


Mine was running with my Vol FD.

Sheriff's Dep running 33 traffic (emergancy) responding to a south bound car in the north bound lane of I-75.

The LEO is on a secondary street when the call goes out, and starts that way.

MrPaul Patterson's Prize Procuring Poodle was pandering on the roadway when the Leo came around the curve. LEO knows about this Poodle and swerves to miss said Canine and instead hits a Dogwood tree.

Picture of car is linked Below.

Worth mentioning, LEO had Superficial burn to his legs, and a few abrasions but otherwise okay. Vehicle caught fire from the battery shorting out and sending a surge through the electrical system.

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Great product placement for Ford there!

;)...........Driver's airbag still intact, too?
Look like that tree jumped out and hit him on the starboard side of the engine compartment.
 
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I have seen just about everything in the 29 years I been doing this but the weirdest had to be when a one man Gyro Copter malfunctioned and fell out of the sky at a rural airport that had grass runways. It fell right on the guy on the tractor mowing the runways and the rotors chopped him to pieces. The pilot of the copter got thrown into the bush hog the tractor was pulling after the tractor flipped on its side and that chopped him all up. I have seen a few others chopped up by a bush hog but that one takes the cake.
 
Oh, crikey. Hmmmm do parachutes count? Sure!

I actually was off duty but one of the Army parachute team, the Sky Knights, had a chute fail at an air show. He bounced off the flightline concrete and survived, at least he was alive when they took him by ambulance to the base hospital.
 
Seen a little old lady get fender vaulted 25ft by a semi doing 40. Crazy thing was her lower extremities were like jello every singe bone in her legs were completely crushed... impossible to splint so we put them on a pillow...she lived all the way until surgery where they killed her. Never seen a jello leg before or since that much less two.
 
Smurfe, seriosly consider sending yours to Mythbusters!!

Oh, man.....bad day!
 
Riding mowers again.

Old fashioned platform mowers for golf courses etc. used to have the engine and gas tank in front of the operator. We responded to a call where the operator put the thin cheap gas can next to the engine to avoid stopping for refuels, the vibration wore a pinhole in the can, and the gas spewed out, presumably ignited by the magneto's sparks.

Only injuries were singed eyebrows and bruises. He threw himself over backwards out of the seat, the mower went blazing along about a hundred feet before the fuel line and/or spark plug wire insulation burned up.
 
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