State Highway 13
First responders Frank Thomie and Wendy Ferguson picked up the call from the Tooele County Dispatch Center at 10:14 PM. It had been a busy night. They had been recruited to take this call from Rowley Junction, a ride in their ambulance that took twenty-three minutes even with the flashers on and the pedal floored. The vehicle skidded to a stop on the rain-slicked road. They could not miss the accident. A car with its emergency blinkers on was stopped in the street, and a man in a Utah Jazz warm up jacket was frenetically waving a flashlight at them. The body of a woman was crumpled to one side of the car.
“I had my signal on! I wasn’t going more than 20! She was stompin’ up and down on the side of the street, and then she just ran into the side of my car!” the driver said in a shaky voice. “I didn’t hit her. She hit me!”
“Please stand off the road,” ordered Frank. The woman, Mildred Conniver, had been unconscious since the accident.
Wendy saw the telltale stain of massive hemorrhage on the street. The woman had no pulse. Wendy started CPR, as Frank ran for the radio.
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