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Yikes! A Queens woman was impaled by a fence during a car accident in Broolyn. The Post reports that 6 feet of a 15 foot fence "ripped through Sherland Chandler-Torres' chest near her left shoulder — missing her heart by inches," after a car hit her minivan, which then crashed into a fence and the fence pole. "The long horizontal metal pole on top of the fence crashed through her windshield, speared its way through her left shoulder just below the collarbone and continued on through the back of the driver's seat into the passenger seat behind her, witnesses said." Holy. The 35 year-old Chandler-Torres was taken to Kings County Hospital after NYPD and FDNY took the top off her car and cut both ends of the pole (a two foot section stayed). She is currently in critical but stable condition.
A nearby resident told the Post, "I tried to help, but I couldn't pull the iron out. It was too long. I grabbed the pole and she said, 'No.'" From what Gothamist remembers of First Aid, aren't you supposed to leave things in the wound (like a shard of glass), because you might cause more bleeding if you take them out? This reminds Gothamist we should take a First Aid class. The NYC Red Cross has courses for First Aid & CPR.
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that's like a buffy the vampire slayer impaling! i've always wondered how hard it is to actually take a piece of something and push it through the human body- i mean, how much force is actually required?
Gather 'round, Gothamist, for it is personal anecdote time:
I was driving to high school one day, and there was a pick-up truck a few cars in front of me on the highway. All of a sudden it dumped all these metal rods onto the road, and since the truck was going like 65, the damn things were bouncing all over the place. Sure enough, I heard a loud sound and then the unmistakable scraping of metal on cement.
I pulled over, as did three or four other cars that were hit. I checked out the front, and the damn rod had pierced the car, right above the bumper. It had gone straight through, and was still partially sticking out.
Another car had one of the rods in its gas tank, and gas was spilling out all over the highway. No one seemed very concerned though.
Needless to say I had quite the excuse as to why I was late for my calc test.
um, a little originality here please?
this totally happened on ER about 3 weeks ago.
Jake: "i've always wondered how hard it is to actually take a piece of something and push it through the human body- i mean, how much force is actually required?"
Holy shit! Can't you restrict the morbid musings on human mutilation to Bluejake?
i specifically remember learning in some sort of cpr/first aid course that you should never try and remove the blade from a stabbing wound, since once it is in in there it may be acting to restrict the size of the wound and the bleeding. i am going to go out on a limb and say that one shouldn't remove an impaled object either.
Terrible! Just like The Omen.
"i've always wondered how hard it is to actually take a piece of something and push it through the human body- i mean, how much force is actually required?"
actually, doesn't take much. i remember how surprised i was during first year anatomy at learning that a pretty thorough dissection of the human body can be accomplished with a blunt pair of scissors, fingers, and strong hands.