Collision victims sent to three hospitals
Cain van before injured women were removed
A two-vehicle collision sent five people to regional hospitals yesterday afternoon,
following a head-on collision on Route 16, just south of the entrance to Calhoun
Middle/High School.
Three Calhoun Middle/High School students were life-flighted by HealthNet in three
separate choppers to Charleston Area Medical Center. They were identified as
Brittany Prim, 16, the driver of a Pontiac Grand Prix, and two passengers, Tabatha
and Natasha Shock of Sycamore, children of Mr. and Mrs. Tom Shock.
Charleston Area Medical Center said they would give a status report on their
condition later this morning.
Barbara Cain of Big Bend, wife of Calhoun veterinarian Daniel Cain, was taken to
Minnie Hamilton Health Care Center in Grantsville, reportedly suffering from two
fractured legs and a broken ankle. She was then airlifted by a fourth chopper to
Cabel-Huntington Hospital.
Her daughter Shaina, a first-year college student, was also taken to Minnie Hamilton
Health Care Center for treatment of a broken collarbone. She was treated and
released.
The injured were extracted from the vehicles by the Arnoldsburg VFD, using the
Jaws of Life and other extraction equipment.
Arnoldsburg firemen use "Jaws" and extraction devices on vehicles
Calhoun EMS remove victim to waiting ambulance
Several medics and five ambulances were dispatched at 3:45 pm, three from
Calhoun EMS, one from Minnie Hamilton Health Care Center and one from Roane
County EMS. The Grantsville VFD dispatched firemen and equipment, and assisted
with the emergency landing zone at the school.
Traffic was backed-up for several miles.
Law enforcement responding to the scene, Trooper J. D. Hunt, Sheriff Allen Parsons
and Deputies Carl Ballengee and Ron Bandy.
Nearly all of Calhoun's emergency services were called-out yesterday evening to
four separate accidents.
EMS and the Upper West Fork VFD responded to Route 16 near Minnora where two
motorcycles wrecked at 4:40 pm. The drivers were not taken to the hospital.
A single vehicle accident near Sycamore Road and Rt. 16 did not cause injuries at
3:57 pm, according to Sheriff Allen Parsons.
While a severe thunderstorm swept across the county, a tree fell on a pick-up truck
on Route 5 west of Grantsville near Big Root Road. The driver was able to remove
himself from the debris, uninjured. Calhoun EMS and the Grantsville VFD responded
at 7:30 p.m.
Pouring rain and hail fell on sections of the county, quickly raising streams. The
severe weather alert ended at 11 pm.
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