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In Honduras, TREE Crosses body of a driver!! probability of 1 person/100,000 per year
This amazing and interesting case happned in my country next to the city I live, ill post both in english in spanish.
*i translate it using babelfish.yahoo.com - there might be words that are not used the right english or something like that, i read and change a lil bit but just in case, cuz honestly didnt change most of it; ill post the original one in spanish.
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Branch of tree falls on rapidito (a small bus with capacity of 25 or a lil more persons) and crosses to motorist. The conductor is out of danger because the stock did not touch vital organs, according to doctors of the Social Insurance
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SAN PEDRO SULA. Neither the paramedical personal of the Body of Firemen, nor the doctors of the Honduran Institute of Seguridad Social (IHSS) are explained how Ajenor Brown González, of 44 years of age, still is with life. The motorist of the company of interurban buses Tikamaya Express, that cross the route between Choloma and San Pedro Sula, arrived at the emergency of the Social Insurance with a branch nailed in the right part of the abdomen
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The galens were surprised still more when they discovered that the low back of the conductor they left two inches of the branch. “Dear God, the branch completely cross the body”, they expressed, while they observed perplex the calm in the face of the patient.
The branch had a thickness of four inches, the widest part, 2,5 inches thinnest and measured little more of a meter of length.
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at 6:30 in the morning the bus number 07 of the company Tikamaya Express circulated at a moderate speed around the Boulevard of the North, course to San Pedro Sula. In the vehicle 25 people were transported.
Around the first return after the toll, in the Fesitranh colony, a heavy branch of a tree fell on the unit in march, broke the glass of the windshield and soon it became engraved in the abdomen of the conductor crossing it completely. A patrol that happened to that hour through the place arrived at the substation of the Body of Firemen, located 300 meters in front of where it happened the incident, to ask for the intervention of the paramedical ones.
Ricardo fireman Avila and their companions Kelvin Hernandez and Manuel Leiva moved to the place with an ambulance to help the wounded
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We noticed that a big branch left the cabin of the conductor, but did not suspect that it was introduced in its abdomen.
When we approached and we saw the frightening picture we decided to ask support the neighbors, with equipment, to cut part of the branch”, it explained, after being sorry that the institution does not count on basic tools to take care of that type of accidents.
The inhabitants lent to the firemen a segueta and thus they managed to drain the size of the branch. “He was complicated because we did not know the injuries internal that it had the patient and the vibrations of the segueta (tool to cut trees or wooden or other material ) could make worse his health.
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The firemen took the conductor and the other injured passengers to the Social Insurance, where they were taken care of emergency. [/quote]
In order to control the state of he brings back to consciousness of the conductor, the firemen did ask to him simple like “what is your name? , how old are you? , where do you live? , what is the day today?, to confirm that their answers were prudent.
Amazingly, Amílcar Mejía, manager of the Emergencia of the IHSS, informed that initially they thought that the branch had come off a edge the appendix and caused to serious damages to the intestine and possibly the bladder of the patient.
“About 15 minutes after receiving we transferred it to the operating room where a multidisciplinary team of specialistic and surgeons took part general it during six hours.
Miraculously the branch did not cause damages to any internal organ, only to the soft weave (fat and skin). Nevertheless yes superior broke the iliac crest, that is a bone of pelvis, but the surgeons operated and by the moments the patient is stable, but under strict monitoring”, she detailed. “This case is for Ripley, one in 100 thousands or perhaps more than we take care of in this emergencia per year”, commented. after not appearing postoperative complication, the patient will have to remain several weeks or possibly months hospitalized and later she will have to receive physical therapy and of rehabilitation. [/quote]
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Irsa Lopez Rodriguez, of 40 years, employee of cleanliness of a maquila of Zip Blanco River, related about the 6:30 in the morning the bus circulated at a moderate speed around the Boulevard of the North, course to San Pedro Sula.
“I sat next to the motorist, the bus was cruising normally and suddenly the tree fell to us above. The glass pieces caused wounds in my face, but they are not serious”, said the woman.
The worker showed that at the outset she thought that some institution were cutting the tree, but in the bus she noticed that the branch fell on on the windshield by itself.
Another one of the passengers who were injured was Susana Garci'a, who works in the department of Protocol of the municipality of Choloma. The young person said that she went indeed to the Social Insurance, to a medical appointment, at the time of the accident.
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The past 12 of June, after a gust of wind brought about the fall of about 60 trees and would cause the death of a worker of the construction and a salesman of hot-dog, Newspaper EL TIEMPO published aN article warning on the necessity to cut the old trees of the city. EL TIEMPO interviewed the doctor in fitopatología of the Honduran Foundation of Investigación Agrícola (FHIA), Jose Melgar, confirmed that a good amount of trees of San Pedro Sula old and is debilitated, which puts in risk the physical integrity of the people and the buildings that surround.
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IT IS NOT AN ACCIDENT According to Oquelí Mejía Tinoco, head of the Section of Investigation of Accidents of Tránsito (SIAT), this event does not classify itself like traffic accident but like incident because she was caused by external conditions where there were not shocks, no people in charge and either mechanical faults. “The office of Transit in this case raises a report solely in case the affected ones demand indemnifications, since the owners of the units are the people in charge”, explained Mejía Tinoco.CLAUDIA GALDAMEZ Photos: EL TIEMPO Ramon Mayorga
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taken from website: www.tiempo.hn
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Last edited by drunky_krol; Aug 3rd, 2008 at 03:49 AM.
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