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Mayor thanks firefighters, paramedics for daughter’s rescue

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Dec 5th, 2010
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By MORGAN IAN ADAMS Collingwood enterprise Bulletin December 2 2010
COLLINGWOOD — Chris Carrier ended his term as mayor with a grateful thank-you to emergency services workers who quickly treated his daughter after a serious accident.

Nineteen-year-old Sara Carrier was in a vehicle with three other women on Highway 26 when they were involved in a collision with another vehicle, Saturday morning.
Police have not released details on the cause of the crash. Police say two vehicles coming from opposite directions collided; one of the vehicles had the four women, while the other vehicle was driven by a 35-year-old Collingwood man.
Carrier and another woman, whose name has not been released, were airlifted to hospitals in Toronto. Both were reported by police to have serious injuries.
The other woman, 31, was taken to Sunnybrooke.
In his final address to council on Monday night, the outgoing mayor expressed his thanks to the firefighters and paramedics who were called to the scene — as well as passing motorists who stopped to assist.
“You always wonder if strangers will come to someone’s aid, and they did,” said Carrier.
He also praised the emergency department staff at the General & Marine Hospital, noting that “you hear comments if the G&M is equipped to deal with trauma with multiple victims, and they are.”
The crash happened around 8 a.m.; by noon, Sara Carrier was on a medivac helicopter to St. Michael’s Hospital.
“My daughter is going to recover, and it’s going to be a long road to recovery — but the support from the community has been outstanding,” said the mayor, as he thanked the community on behalf of the family. “The thank-you… is heartfelt.”
The OPP’s media relations officer for Central Region, Const. Peter Leon, said the investigation into Saturday’s collision is ongoing.
 The highway was closed for about five hours between Fairgrounds Road and the Poplar Sideroad while members of the Central Region Reconstruction and Technical Traffic Collision Investigation Units reviewed the scene.
The driver of the other vehicle, a 35-year-old Collingwood man, and the two other women in the vehicle with Carrier, were also taken to the G&M Hospital.

 

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