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Car Drives Off Great Hill Road In Seymour

by Eugene Driscoll | Aug 2, 2010 2:28 pm

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One woman was sent to Bridgeport Hospital and two firefighters were treated for heat exhaustion after a car drove off a steep embankment on Great Hill Road Monday afternoon.

The Connecticut Post Monday evening identified the driver as Phyliss Greco, 40, of Seymour.

Emergency crews had to use ropes to get to the woman, who was trapped in her car about 30 to 40 feet down an embankment across from 5 Great Hill Road.

Once at the vehicle — which had rolled over at least once on its tumble down the hill into thick brush — firefighters used the jaws of life to cut the woman from the car. She was the only person in the vehicle.

The woman was placed carefully in a “stokes” basket and pulled up the hill. Her eyes were closed and her faced was bloodied, but she was moving her arms as she was loaded onto a stretcher. The photos above show the scene after the victim was rescued.

The vehicle broke through a wire guard rail, taking out at least two wooden poles.

As of 2:33 p.m., the vehicle was still down the hill and an accident reconstruction team from the Seymour Police Department was investigating the wreck.

The accident happened at about noon. The road remained closed as of 2:30 p.m.

About 20 to 30 emergency responders — including volunteer firefighters from Citizens Engine Co. and Great Hill Hose Co. — and the Seymour police department — were at the scene.

The rescue was “labor intensive,” Assistant Fire Chief Stephen Childs said.

“Obviously, with the two guys getting heat exhaustion, the heat was an issue today,” Childs said. “It was a pretty steep embankment. It was an issue getting down to the car, initially. Once we were down there we had to get the patient out of the car and back up to the road. It’s very labor intensive.”

It was about 77 degrees with 61 percent humidity at the time of the rescue.

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