A sequence of recent movies present the dramatic scenes when a medical helicopter crashed on a freeway in Sacramento, California.
One of the movies reveals bystanders speeding to assist a trapped crew member, who was later recognized as Suzie Smith.
“Bystanders heroically lifted a helicopter off a trapped crew member after a crash on Highway 50 in Sacramento on Monday night. Family identified the crew member trapped underneath as Suzie Smith, who was one of three victims in the crash,” ABC 10 wrote on Xsharing video of the crash, which confirmed the bystanders becoming a member of collectively in a line to attempt to carry the tail of the helicopter.
Priscilla Cochran-Navarra was one in every of a dozen bystanders who rushed to assist when the REACH helicopter crashed, in accordance with ABC 7.
“I was, I think, the first one to approach the helicopter and at that point I didn’t know there were three victims, cause I could only see three bodies and I didn’t know if they were deceased or not at that point,” she defined. “I’m yelling are you alive? Are you alive? And then one of the passengers, one who subsequently ended up being pinned, moved her leg a little bit, so I could see that she was alive. So I just screamed like she’s alive, she’s alive.”
KRCA News obtained a separate dashcam video that confirmed the helicopter crashing on the busy freeway on October 7.
Smith “was 1 of 3 people on a helicopter when it crashed onto Hwy 50 in Sacramento. Bystanders rushed to lift the helicopter and pul her from the wreckage. Her family asks ‘if you are a believer,'” wrote ABC 10.
The crash on Sacramento’s Highway 50 injured the pilot, nurse, and paramedic on board, in accordance with CBS Newswhich reported that every one three had been all in crucial situation on October 8.
The helicopter had simply left a medical heart when it crashed on the busy freeway. No motorists had been injured, CBS News reported.
“She is tough as nails and goes day in and day out on these flights and shows up to these horrific accidents and is the first responder,” stated a good friend of Smith’s, Joseph Anfuso, to CBS News. The different two victims weren’t but publicly recognized.
According to CBS News, Smith is “a medical missionary, regularly making trips to Nicaragua to serve the poorest part of the Latin American country.”