SCHUYLKILL COUNTY, PA – Just after 9:00 AM on Tuesday, September 23, Sheppton-Oneida Fire Company was dispatched with Nuremberg EMS and APTS Medic 11 to the area of Center Street and Chapel Road in East Union Township for a motor vehicle crash with injury.
Engine 09-10 arrived on scene to find a single vehicle crash just North of Sheppton on Route 924. The car appeared to have struck a drainage ditch before crashing into a telephone pole. The Engine crew began to assess the self-extricated driver while other personnel directed traffic and controlled hazards on the vehicle.
Medic 11B arrived at the scene and immobilized the patient. Once in the ambulance, the paramedic decided the patient needed to be transported to a trauma center for advanced treatment. Lehigh Valley MedEvac 4 was requested to the Sheppton Cemetery.
Engine 09-10 cleared the accident scene and set up a landing zone at the cemetery on Pine Street. MedEvac 4 came and took the patient to a trauma center.
The Pennsylvania State Police were investigating the crash.
