At just before 11:00 AM, on Thursday, September 17, 2009, Cherry Hill Firefighters and EMTs were dispatched to a motor vehicle accident on West Route 70 near Donahue Ave. An EMS supervisor was first to arrive and advised incoming units the accident involved one vehicle that had taken down a utility pole with multiple power lines down, a traffic light standard was in the roadway, and one victim was trapped in the vehicle, which ended up just a couple feet from a home located just off the roadway. Witnesses later said the car, which was travelling east bound, had flipped several times before coming to a stop.
Firefighters and EMTs stabilized the vehicle and used hydraulic rescue tools to free the victim, which took about ten minutes. The victim was transported by Cherry Hill Fire Department ambulance to the Trauma Center at Cooper Hospital in Camden. Traffic in the area had to be re-routed for several hours as firefighters and utility crews worked to clean up the roadway in conjunction with Department of Transportation personnel. This accident is under investigation by the Cherry Hill Police Department.
