Single Vehicle Accident Sends One to Hospital
Sunday, April 5, 2015 @ 9:36 AM
Prince George, B.C. – Prince George RCMP, Fire Rescue and B.C. Ambulance Service personnel were called out to a motor vehicle incident on North Ospika Boulevard this morning.
Around 7:30 a.m. a small car heading down the hill just before the S-curves on North Ospika crossed into the oncoming lane, hopped the curb and came to rest near a tree which appeared to have been brought down in a recent wind storm.
Small car did not have any visible damage
There was no visible evidence of damage to the vehicle however the young female driver was taken to hospital by ambulance.
The road was wet at the time and was closed to traffic temporarily.
Comments
Texting- Just a guess.
Ok, so I’m a bit puzzled! Not trying to be insensitive or anything like that, but what ever happened to putting the car in reverse, backing it up and then driving home to tell Daddy what I have done??
No visible damage to the car! It didn’t run into anything, it just came to rest near a tree! No mention of injuries! And yet we call out the cavalry in the form of a fully crewed fire truck and a fully crewed ambulance!
Perhaps oldman1 has it right! Texting? Texting might not garner a very favourable response from Mommy and Daddy while a trip to the hospital might elicit a more favourable and sympathetic reaction!
Puzzled, more like totally confused! I’m really shaking my head on this one!
BLACK ICE
Really? Are you so shallow to think the only reason this occurred is due to some selfish act by a young girl? I’m really shaking my head on this one! Assumers blow my mind!
Just wondering why you have to close off a road for that?
Maybe she had an actual medical emergency causing the need to be taken to hospital by ambulance?
ok, again trying not to be insensitive, but if a “young female driver” had an actual medical emergency causing the need to be taken to hospital by ambulance, perhaps the “young female driver” should not have a driver’s licence??
Hart, come on. Concussion from frame? All sorts of reasons medically.
Feinted? Mechanical issue? All sorts of reasons. How bout, they can’t release information, so conspiracies, suppositions and assumptions abound!
LOL.
Hart Guy, I’m guessing you missed the part of the story where it said the young female driver was taken to the hospital . . .
“ok, again trying not to be insensitive, but if a “young female driver” had an actual medical emergency causing the need to be taken to hospital by ambulance, perhaps the “young female driver” should not have a driver’s licence??”
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Or perhaps the medical emergency was completely unpredictable, much like it could be for an middle aged man? Why are you making a point of emphasizing “young female driver”?
Maybe she was a union member?
“Posted on Sunday, April 5, 2015 @ 11:05 AM by X-it
Just wondering why you have to close off a road for that?”
Yeah, they should have left it open and allowed traffic to swerve their way around paramedics and police as they were working. To heck with ensuring peoples safety.
Grizzly2, looks like she feinted left. ;)
LMAO!
Yup, she must have had a medical emergency! No damage to the car, looks like it just jumped the curb. No damage to trees or telephone poles!
Hey, I’m as happy as the next person that there was no major damage, if any to the car, the curb, the bushes and more importantly hopefully no serious injuries to the young female driver. But if I and my family have to share the highways and byways with someone who may have a medical issue, I have concerns about that. What if another vehicle, a family, your family perhaps had been coming the other way? Things could have been a lot worse!
We seem to have a pattern in our society, a pattern of making excuses for everyone and everything! Lots of you are willing to defend the driver but you aren’t willing to perhaps consider that she was simply distracted, perhaps by texting??
Hopefully, no serious injuries! That’s all the really matters!
Dumbfounded wrote “Maybe she was a union member?”
Ha Ha HA! I’m assuming you are poking fun at Hart Guy’s obvious disdain for Union members. Maybe Hart Guy was a non-union traffic cop in an earlier life?
Probably bumped her head as she jumped the curb so was taken away by ambulance to be checked over
What a bunch of speculating losers..Get a life and clean your own back yards..
So tired of seeing stuff like this.. These stories just shouldn’t happen in the media because honestly it’s not news. Stories like this are for nosey people who have nothing better to do, including those who report it because it’s all speculation based on nothing but a picture. So pretty much all the people who have negative comments Captioned the Photo. Yay for you.
We seem to have a pattern in our society, a pattern of making excuses for everyone and everything!
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The pattern I actually see is when grumpy old men go out of their way to scold and shake their finger at anyone 30 years younger than them when they see them doing something they don’t like. They usually top it off with a rant about how people these days always have excuses or how nobody is accountable for their actions.
Maybe the airbag went off……
Northern Citizen and dumbfounded, suggesting that the driver was a Union member might explain the situation. Perhaps her Union job was to steer and it was somebody else’s job to brake!
I think that oldman1 is probably more accurate than not with his guess that this might be texting! I am far more likely to consider distracted driving as a cause as I find this to be far more plausible than suggesting that a young lady, who is obviously healthy enough to get a driver’s licence is suddenly stricken with an actual medical emergency.
I consider driving to be an extremely serious activity and for the safety of myself, my family, my friends and everyone else who shares the roads, I wish others would as well!
That’s my opinion, of which I am entitled!
I think what we really need is a picture of the young female driver which may help to explain the exuberant response by emergency personal, and will help me to decide if I wish to be critical or compassionate.
When I was 17 I had a seizure while driving my car in a parking lot. Fortunately I was driving very slowly and just bumped into another car lightly. I did not know that I was epileptic prior to that. And yes, I did surrender my license afterward. I’m not going to argue it’s more plausible then anything else, but it definitely does happen.
None of us may ever know what happened here and the main thing is that nobody has been injured. Being a young driver she may have gotten scared badly. Possible she swerved to miss an animal but if she was texting I hope she learned from this incident.
this silly story makes the news, but when a young drunk driver in a company cube van fails to negotiate a corner in a subdivision, takes out a couple of vehicles and then goes through a fence doesn’t…me thinks they need new reporters….
It was Harper’s fault!
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