Surgery on car rescues trapped Dade motorist
Posted on Fri, May. 09, 2008
By TIM CHAPMAN
TIM CHAPMAN/MIAMI HERALD STAFF
Miami firefighters use the 'jaws of life' to rescue a man who was trapped after he hit a power pole on Friday morning.
Miami Fire Rescue, working quickly and delicately, performed life-saving surgery on a car Friday morning.
They did it to save the driver who was trapped inside a Nissan Altima that had crashed sideways into a heavy concrete power pole on Northwest 23rd Street and Second Avenue.
Although the pole did not topple, the driver was trapped. Using the ''jaws of life,'' the crew peeled the top off the car, freeing the occupant, who was pulled through the opening and rushed to the hospital.
The accident site is in Wynwood, next to a vacant lot in a neighborhood of warehouses and apartment buildings.
It happened at 7:44 a.m. and the driver, a young man, was out by 8:15 and on the way to Ryder Trauma Center at Jackson Memorial Hospital.
Police were trying to determine why the driver, who had been heading south on Second Avenue, lost control, veered onto the sidewalk and slammed into the pole.
