Vails Gate (Orange) Fatal MVA 1-22-08

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Date: 1/22/08

Time: 18:05

Location: Temple Hill Rd (Rt 300) & Old Temple Hill Rd

Frequency: 159.900, 460.600, 453.600

Units Operating: Vails Gate FD, New Windsor V.A.C, Regional EMS, Lifeguard 18, Life Net Air 2, New Windsor PD

Description Of Incident: 2 car t-bone mva with fatality

Writer: JETPHOTO

Units dispatched for a reported serious MVA 1 car poss split in half.

Regional EMS arrived to find a 2 car MVA 1 car split in half, with entrapment and 1 fatality

Cmd Req. medevac t/s. Vails Gate Cmd. reports landing zone at Vails Gate St. 1

New Windsor PD reporting fatality, request on call detectives to the scene for accident reconstruction

Lifeguard 18 e/r

Cmd confirms entrapment. Rt 300 shut down.

Cmd request a 2nd medevac to the scene.

1 Pt extricated e/r to L/Z, Lifeguard landing

Life Net Air 2 e/r same L/Z

Lifeguard E/R to St Francis with 1 for mechanism and shock (mother of child) Fairview FD (Dutchess) dispatched to St Francis for landing

Air 2 arriving 2nd pt extricated e/r to l/z

PD reports 1 detective riding along on Air 2

Air 2 e/r to Westchester Med, 1 pt. 1 passenger

PD request add'l units to close side streets onto Rt 300 to prevent anyone from getting to the scene.