WHEN THE DISPATCH FOR A TRAIN vs. car collision was sent to the Huron, Ohio, fire department Wednesday night, Captain Kurt Schafer was at home with his monitor on and heard the call. The report was for a car that had been struck and was on fire next to the railroad crossing. Capt. Schafer lives not far from the location and he responded from home to try and help before the units arrived.
When he came on the scene he found a car well-involved in fire and two legs sticking out of a window. Then he noticed that the legs were kicking as if trying to crawl out of the vehicle. Schafer ran up to the car, grabbed the victim’s coat and pulled him out and away from the blazing vehicle……ironically a Chevy Blazer. The train was traveling 50 mph when it struck the car sending it tumbling over and down an embankment.
WJW-TV Ch. 8 Cleveland interviews Capt. Schafer as he relates his story:
The driver of the Blazer was found to have 3 times the legal limit of alcohol in his bloodstream and admitted to police that he had consumed about 25 drinks earlier that evening.
The Morning Journal has a good report on what happened along with a link to the 9-1-1 tape HERE.
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