Lawrence Road Fire Company

Back to December 2007 Noteworthy Incidents

OVERTURNED VEHICLE

Date & Time: Saturday, December 15, 2007 – 3:43 a.m.

Location: Darrah Lane, near Fieldboro Drive, Lawrence Township, N.J.

Details: Not long after returning home to their beds following the two structure fires earlier in the evening, Lawrence Road Fire Co. volunteers were once again called out to duty when, at 3:43 a.m., Mercer County Central dispatched a full rescue assignment for a reported overturned vehicle with unknown entrapment in the 100 block of Darrah Lane between Fieldboro Drive and Birchwood Knoll. At 3:46 a.m. Slackwood Fire Co. Deputy Chief Robert Santello arrived on scene to find a Jeep Cherokee sitting on its roof with its driver already out. The Jeep apparently flipped over after its driver lost control and struck a parked car. Lawrence Road Deputy Chief John Fleming arrived at 3:48 a.m. to assume command and, with no entrapment, recalled both Slackwood’s Rescue 21 and Rescue 23 from Lawrenceville Fire Co. Lawrence Road’s Rescue 22 was ordered to proceed in to the scene and stand by. Rescue 22 arrived at 3:49 a.m. and the crew set up their light tower to illuminate the scene while police officers conducted a field sobriety test on the Jeep’s driver. The young man was soon arrested on suspicion of drunk driving and was taken away in handcuffs. He was later taken by ambulance to a hospital in Trenton to be treated for minor injuries he received in the crash. Rescue 22’s crew remained on scene until both the overturned Jeep and the parked car that had been hit by the Jeep were removed by tow trucks. Rescue 22 was back in quarters by 4:55 a.m.

Responding LRFC Personnel

Rescue 22