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Woman ejected from Bay Bridge crash swims to safety
WTOP News Online ^ | 20 July 2013 | WTOP News

Posted on 07/20/2013 9:54:56 AM PDT by COBOL2Java


A tractor trailer hit a car sending the driver over the guardrail of the Chesapeake Bay Bridge. (MSHA Bay Bridge camera)


WASHINGTON - A collision involving a tractor-trailer and two vehicles sent a car and its driver over the side of the Chesapeake Bay Bridge and down 40 feet into the water on Friday night, but the driver was able to climb to safety.

Anne Arundel County Fire Battalion Chief Steve Thompson said the driver, a 22- year-old woman, was rescued and flown to Maryland Shock Trauma in Baltimore. She was in critical condition late Friday with non-life-threatening injuries.

Thompson said the collision occurred at about 8:25 p.m. Friday in the eastbound lanes of the bridge, which connects Maryland's Eastern Shore with the rest of the state, including Annapolis.

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1 posted on 07/20/2013 9:54:56 AM PDT by COBOL2Java
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Now that is a buzz-killer. I'd head straight back to the bar.
2 posted on 07/20/2013 9:58:48 AM PDT by 1rudeboy
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If you are going to take a header off of the Bay Bridge; she couldn’t have picked a better spot...


3 posted on 07/20/2013 10:01:44 AM PDT by who knows what evil? (G-d saved more animals than people on the ark...www.siameserescue.org.)
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Take that TEDDY!


4 posted on 07/20/2013 10:10:57 AM PDT by longfellow (Bill Maher, the 21st hijacker.)
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“She was in critical condition late Friday with non-life-threatening injuries.”

Gotta call “PRESSTITUTION” on this one.

How did “non-life-threatening injuries” get her into “critical condition”?


5 posted on 07/20/2013 10:22:01 AM PDT by GladesGuru (Islam is antithetical to, and Islam is irreconcilable with, America. Therefore - Islam Delenda Est)
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How did “non-life-threatening injuries” get her into “critical condition”?

I don't know, maybe it has something to do with George Zimmerman morphing into a white Hispanic?

5.56mm

6 posted on 07/20/2013 10:27:50 AM PDT by M Kehoe
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How did “non-life-threatening injuries” get her into “critical condition”?

That caught my eye as well. Gonna have to ask my EMT daughter if that's a valid diagnosis.

7 posted on 07/20/2013 10:29:58 AM PDT by COBOL2Java (I'm a Christian, pro-life, pro-gun, Reaganite. The GOP hates me. Why should I vote for them?)
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Shock?


8 posted on 07/20/2013 10:33:38 AM PDT by JerseyDvl (Cogito Ergo Doleo Soetoro, ABO and of course FUBO!)
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To: GladesGuru
How did “non-life-threatening injuries” get her into “critical condition”?

More often than you would think the EMT and ER do more harm than good. To protect the doctors, hospitals and such the employees have to sign non-disclosure agreements, kind of like our State Department.

9 posted on 07/20/2013 10:34:37 AM PDT by fella ("As it was before Noah, so shall it be again,")
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OK just asked her. It's a valid diagnosis. Here are some possibilities, according to her: Those were just the few off the top of her head.
10 posted on 07/20/2013 10:35:18 AM PDT by COBOL2Java (I'm a Christian, pro-life, pro-gun, Reaganite. The GOP hates me. Why should I vote for them?)
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There is a sort of disconnect. But even a broken bone can send a bit of bone marrow into the blood stream and result in death by heart attack or pulmonary thrombosis. Without medical support, ‘you will die, my young friend.’ So, if you need medical support and you are severely injured, you're in critical condition ... think Evil Knieval after smacking the wall at Caesar's Palace.
11 posted on 07/20/2013 10:35:36 AM PDT by MHGinTN (Being deceived can be cured.)
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LOL .... Agree !


12 posted on 07/20/2013 10:42:22 AM PDT by Squantos ( Be polite, be professional, but have a plan to kill everyone you meet ...)
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To: M Kehoe
LOL!

Leni

13 posted on 07/20/2013 10:46:07 AM PDT by MinuteGal
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To: fella

This thread is a good example of why Free Republic is so well thought of. Less than five minutes before a question is seconded by fella - to the post wherein fella had gone to someone experienced in the field and posted that answer.


14 posted on 07/20/2013 10:46:15 AM PDT by GladesGuru (Islam is antithetical to, and Islam is irreconcilable with, America. Therefore - Islam Delenda Est)
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Yup. Free Republic is very often my rock.


15 posted on 07/20/2013 10:51:16 AM PDT by Cowgirl of Justice
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FR keeps me sane.

Well... sane(lsh)


16 posted on 07/20/2013 10:52:34 AM PDT by GeronL
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Wow!

Good for her!


17 posted on 07/20/2013 11:04:18 AM PDT by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
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To: COBOL2Java
Ted Kennedy is deeply saddened.


18 posted on 07/20/2013 11:19:50 AM PDT by Bratch
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Ted Kennedy is deeply  saddened  planted.
19 posted on 07/20/2013 11:26:24 AM PDT by kevcol
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To: COBOL2Java

Yet another reason I am glad I usually don’t take the Bridge when traveling to the Western Shore.


20 posted on 07/20/2013 11:46:12 AM PDT by Bigg Red (Restore us, O God of hosts; let your face shine, that we may be saved! -Ps80)
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