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Two single-vehicle accidents send drivers to Kearney hospital

Tuesday, July 10, 2012
Connie Jo Discoe
A Trailblazer involved in a one-vehicle roll-over accident Monday north of Danbury, Nebraska, sustained extensive damage.

McCOOK, Nebraska -- Since the Fourth of July, Red Willow County, Nebraska, sheriff's officers have investigated two single-vehicle accidents whose drivers were transferred to Good Samaritan Hospital in Kearney.

The first accident was Wednesday, July 4, at 5:25 p.m., near the intersection of County Roads 403 and 715, five miles south of Bartley, when 50-year-old Robert Jude Evans, of 1207 East B, McCook, lost control of his northbound pickup as he approached a left-hand curve.

The pickup went into the right ditch, over the road and into the west ditch. It rolled back onto the road, facing south, according to an accident report prepared by Sheriff's Deputy Lt. Joe Koetter.

Evans was wearing his seat belt. Officers suspect that alcohol was involved in the accident.

Evans was taken to Cambridge Memorial Hospital, and transferred then to the hospital in Kearney, where his condition was not immediately available.

The second accident occurred Monday, at about 4:45 p.m., on a gravel county road three miles north of Danbury. Deputies Koetter, Steve Kotschwar and Alan Kotschwar investigated the one-vehicle roll-over accident that injured Marina Trejo of Garden City, Kansas, no age available, and her five-year-old daughter.

Officers agree that Trejo was traveling higher than the posted speed limit, which is 50 on the gravel county road, when she lost control of her southbound Trailblazer SUV and slid into the west ditch where it rolled at least three times.

Officers named excessive speed as the cause of the accident.

Officers believe that Trejo was wearing a seat belt and that her daughter was in a car seat. Both were outside the SUV and sitting on the road when ambulance crews, from Beaver Valley, Indianola and McCook, arrived.

Trejo and her daughter were transported to Community Hospital of McCook; Marina Trejo was then transferred to the hospital in Kearney. Her condition was not immediately avaialble.

Emergency personnel was on the scene for about three hours investigating the accident.

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  • When money is so hard too come by for the county. Why were 3 different amblances sent to wreck? Beaver Valley would have been closer and able to take care, of the 2 injuried people.One deputy should have enough knoweledge to cover the scene. NOT 3? It doesn't seem like we have and money problem in Red Willow county to me.? And three hours to decide if the suv roll or not, and to write a report? What the cost on the 2 wagons that came back empty. And cost to clean the diry off inside and out? GOOD JOB FOR THE PAPER FIND OUT!!

    -- Posted by stpm43 on Tue, Jul 10, 2012, at 3:48 PM

  • I'll respond to "stpm43".. Have you ever tried to work an accident scene? I doubt it. An officer has to protect the scene to be able to investigate it. This might include shutting the road down for photos, measurements and collecting of any other evidence. Let me tell you it is very hard to redo the scene if the injuries take a turn for the worse and someone dies. These weren't your everyday minor fender benders. These people could have been killed. So with that said. It might take 3 officers to block the road on each side of the accident maybe with their vehicles and then it's easier to take measurements with two people and a tape measure. I could go on, but hopefully you'll have a little better understanding of why it takes this many officers.

    As to the ambulances, I can't say as I don't have any idea how the accident was reported which led to multiple ambulances being sent.

    -- Posted by Pierre on Tue, Jul 10, 2012, at 5:02 PM
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