Lucky escape for driver at the Muskwa Bridge
Fort Nelson Fire Rescue was dispatched to a motor vehicle incident on the Muskwa Bridge at approximately 8:00 Tuesday morning. Upon arrival crews found BCAS on scene aiding the lone occupant of the vehicle, who was out of the truck and on the road.
Local resident Adam Stevenson was first on scene and immediately went to the driver’s aid. He explained what happened next on Facebook. “He was trapped and couldn’t breathe. The seatbelt jammed.” Stevenson flagged down vehicles until he found someone with a knife and managed to cut through the seatbelt. The driver was once again able to breathe.
Crews assisted in loading the patient into the back of the ambulance for transport to Fort Nelson General Hospital.
Investigation shows that the driver had made a sudden stop to avoid a collision with a vehicle in front setting up a flagging operation, this causing his load to shift sending several pieces of pipe through the back of the truck cab injuring the driver.
The driver of the vehicle in front said the truck was going up the hill northbound when he abruptly stopped and his load of pipe shot right through the cab and out of the front windshield.
“If he hadn’t done that, we would have been killed. He risked his own life to save ours,” she wrote on Facebook.
The driver, a local Fort Nelson man, is recovering from his injuries in Fort Nelson General Hospital.
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