5:30 PM - Nearly all of Calhoun's emergency services were called-out to four accidents within
a short time this afternoon.
A two-vehicle collision has sent five people to the hospital, some of them reciving
serious injuries. Three HealthNet choppers have taken three injured girls,
all students at Calhoun Middle/High School, to Charleston Area Medical Center.
Two other women have been taken to Minnie Hamilton Health Care Center.
The head-on collision happened at 3:45 p.m. just south of the entrance to Calhoun
Middle/High School.
Two of the injured were extracted from a van by the Arnoldsburg VFD, using the
Jaws of Life and cutting equipment.
Extraction was also used to remove victims in the other vehicle, a Pontiac Grand Prix.
Several medics and five ambulances, three from Calhoun EMS, one from Minnie
Hamilton Health Care Center and one from Roane County EMS responded to the
scene in front of the old Holly Nester Store.
The Arnoldsburg and Grantsville VFD's responded. Sheriff Allen Parsons, Deputies Carl Ballengee and Ron Bandy, and Trooper J. D. Hunt responded.
The three injured teenagers were life-flighted from the parking lot at Calhoun
Middle/High School.
Three other accidents happened about the same time, one on Sycamore, two-motorcycles wrecking near
Minnora and a tree falling later on a truck on State Route 5.
Details and photos to follow.
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