A crane crew joined emergency responders at the intersection of Highways 52 and 72 in New Plymouth on Tuesday morning after a woman became trapped in her vehicle in a crash. A pickup was resting on top of her vehicle, and a nurse who witnessed the crash began helping her before firefighters arrived, CBS2 Idaho News reported.
The Payette County dispatch center received the 911 call at about 7:01 a.m., according to CBS2. Firefighters asked Deputy Travis Downey to catch up with a passing crane and request help; the crew from Orizabas Crane Service of Emmett turned around and assisted. The report says the woman had minor injuries and was expected to be okay, and paramedics took her to a hospital. It does not specify who physically freed her from the vehicle.
A response area spanning both highways
The New Plymouth Fire Protection District says its roughly 186-square-mile service area includes Highways 52 and 72 and provides fire, rescue, EMS and hazard response. Payette County Paramedics describes itself as an ambulance district providing 911 emergency services, among other services. Those descriptions help explain the local response setting, but do not establish which agency carried out each task at Tuesday’s crash or detail mutual-aid arrangements.
CBS2 reported that the response included the New Plymouth, Sand Hollow and Payette fire departments, the Payette County Sheriff’s Office and Payette County paramedics. No injuries were reported among the people in the pickup.
Separate crashes offer limited highway context
Idaho State Police records describe two separate two-vehicle injury crashes on Highway 52 near New Plymouth: one at SE 1st Street, east of town, on Oct. 6, 2015, and another east of New Plymouth on Dec. 18, 2017. The records document those incidents, not the cause or circumstances of Tuesday’s crash.
The 2015 state police report and the 2017 report concern different dates and locations from the reported crash at Highways 52 and 72. They are individual examples, not a complete crash history or evidence of an increase in crashes.
