On Wednesday, November 6, 2024, at approximately 5:05 p.m., police, firefighters and emergency medical services responded to the area of 38280 New Market Turner Road in Mechanicsville, for the serious motor vehicle collision with entrapment.
911 callers reported a two vehicle head-on collision with subjects trapped.
Firefighters quickly arrived on the scene to find a Ford Mustang pulled to the side of the road and a Toyota sedan into a tree with the single occupant severely trapped and pinned in the vehicle suffering life-threatening injuries.
Maryland State Police Helicopter Trooper 7 was pre-launched to land nearby and shortly after their arrival, "the R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center's "Go-Team" was requested by flight medics.
Firefighters from Mechanicsville and Hughesville extricated the male patient in under 30 minutes. The GO-Team was canceled a short time later. Learn more about them by clicking here.
The teen driver was flown to the R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center in Baltimore with life-threatening injuries.
Deputies from the St. Mary's County Sheriff's Office and Collision Reconstruction Unit responded and are investigating the collision.
The occupants of the Ford Mustang denied transport.