Driver Trapped, Car Taken to Hospital
Rescue workers unable to free a critically injured man from his mangled sports car loaded the vehicle onto a flatbed truck and rushed it to a nearby hospital, where doctors treated him inside the wreck.
Bruce Foskey, 30, was in critical condition today at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center.
Firefighters had spent an hour trying to free him from the wreckage before moving it to Parkwood Hospital in New Bedford, where it took 45 minutes to get him out. Foskey was conscious throughout the ordeal.
Foskey apparently went off a curve and hit a tree at 7:30 p.m., pinning his legs in his 1976 MGB convertible, Freetown Police Officer Susan Jose said.
After rescuers failed to cut him out of the car using a hydraulic tool, they loaded the vehicle onto a truck and drove it to Parkwood Hospital. There, several police and fire departments finally freed him using two sets of the “Jaws of Life” tools, which pry metal apart.
Doctors and nurses treated Foskey while he was in the car at the emergency room’s loading dock.
“We were giving blood and fluids and checked his blood pressure. We did everything,” Diane Leclair, a Parkwood Hospital supervisor, said.
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