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Vol. 2 Edition 28
Crash victim a lifesaver?
THURSDAY, JULY 17, 2014
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Mock accident
Man believes accident prevented a tragedy
By Jim Blake jim@chathamvoice.com
“I think I saved those guys’ lives.” It’s not something you would expect to hear from someone who’s car had just been demolished by a drunk driver, but that was one of the first things Chris Keskeny said to his wife shortly after the collision that almost cost him his life. It was Tuesday, Aug. 23, 2011 and Chris was travelling north on Furnival Road shortly before 6 p.m. when a supercharged Pontiac Grand Prix GTP ran a stop sign at Marsh Line and slammed into the passenger side of his car, sending it rolling into a cornfield. The driver, a 25-yearold St. Thomas man, was later convicted of a variety of charges, including impaired driving. It was discovered his driver’s license was under suspension for a previous impaired conviction. He has since been banned for driving for life. The driver was injured but attempted to flee the scene. “One of my friends who arrived on scene brought
him back after he tried to get away through a corn field even though he was covered in blood,” Chris said. Chris came to his senses in the midst of the field, his driver’s side door jammed into the dirt. He initially tried to refuse medical attention. “I just wanted to go home to supper,” he said. “I didn’t realize how badly I was hurt.” He was taken by ambulance to Four Counties Hospital in Newberry and later transferred to London where an examination showed three cracked ribs and three broken vertebrae in his lower back. “I had blood in my urine and a bruised liver,” he said. He shared his ambulance ride with the passenger of the vehicle that hit him. “He told me he was really sorry and that the driver was just giving him a lift. He said he was terrified at the speed they were going. He said he had leaned over and looked at the speedometer that showed 140 kilometers per hour. Then they hit me.”
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Bruce Corcoran/The Chatham Voice
Declan Cook of Tilbury gets some fake blood poured into his equally fake leg wound at a mock accident July 10 at Percy Park in Chatham by Assistant Fire Chief Ric Scharf. Cook took part in a week-long summer camp that exposes local high school students to various health-care and emergency services professions. The 10 local kids played victims at the mock accident, where a car was to have run into the bleachers at a ball field, as well as members of the emergency services called in to aid the injured. See story on page 5.
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