8-11-2011 (Gloucester County) GREENWICH TWP - Route 295 @ Exit 16A - Commerical Motor Vehicle Crash with Entrapment - Underride Override

At 0352hrs, Gibbstown Fire & Rescue, Station 21-1, Gloucester County EMS Unit 82-35 and Life Support One were dispatched to Interstate 295 South near Exit 16A for a motor vehicle crash. While responding, units were updated that multiple vehicles were involved including a tractor trailer. Callers were reporting possible entrapment in several vehicles. Once arriving on location and sizing up the incident, 295 Operations requested additional Rescue Companies from East Greenwich Township, District 19 and Woolwich Township, District 25 along with additional BLS from Gloucester County EMS and ALS Units from Underwood Hospital. A heavy wrecker from Riehl’s Towing was also special called to assist in the extrication of a subject who was pinned in his Kia Sportage by the overturned asphalt tanker. Crews from the three townships stabilized the vehicles involved and worked to cut parts of the car away from the patient as the tow truck from Riehl’s lifted the back of the tanker. Engine 1911 set up a heli-spot on the Interstate for Medi Vac 5 just south of the accident scene. There were four passenger vehicles and one tractor trailer involved in the crash. The BLS units transported five patients to area hospitals with the worse being flown to Cooper Trauma. Gloucester County CBRNE was also on scene to assist due to the tanker being involved.

Photos By Deputy Chief Rob Gould III for NJFG