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Drive-All-The-Way-Through Flu Shots

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THE STUDENT NURSES AT THE BAKERSFIELD COLLEGE, California, Nursing School operated a drive-through flu shot clinic Friday.  Not only was it a good opportunity for the local health service to innoculate hundreds of citizens with seasonal-flu vaccine, but it improved the students’ training in mass innoculation techniques.

But what wasn’t planned was an impromptu lesson in mass casualty triage and treatment. The driver of one of the hundred or so cars that were in line suddenly accelerated, took off across the staging lot and crashed into a parked bus and two other autos, leaving seven people injured.

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Police are initially speculating that the woman had some sort of medical emergency, such as fainting or a seizure, that caused her to lose control.  The clinic was delayed for about 20 minutes while the BFD tended to the victims, and then was resumed while the wreckage was being cleared up.

A videographer for KGET-TV was on the scene and caught the entire crash sequence:

KBAK-TV has the story details and more video HERE.