MANORVILLE, N.Y. - Seven New York Army National Guard MPs worked together to help two people severely injured in a car accident on Long Island’s Sunrise Highway May 20.
The Soldiers, assigned to the 442nd Military Police Company, were in a three-vehicle convoy heading to F.S. Gabreski Air National Guard Base in Westhampton Beach on eastern Long Island for a weekend training exercise when they spotted the two-vehicle accident at exit 62 of the highway, according to Sgt. Andre Anderson, the convoy commander.
A 2008 Ford F-150 had smashed into a white Dodge Charger. Two people in the pickup truck were out and walking around. Two people were trapped in the sedan.
Anderson, an emergency medical technician, pulled the convoy of two Humvees and an LMTV truck over, hopped out of the LMTV and headed for the white car.
“I immediately ran over, grabbed my knife, cut the airbag and seatbelt off. But the individual wasn’t responsive to painful stimuli,” Anderson said.
Realizing the car’s driver was in shock, Anderson, a 10-year veteran of the Army Guard and a New York City corrections officer, called for help.
“My only objective was getting [the occupants] away from the vehicle and to (a) safe location and make sure their airway, breathing and circulation were intact,“ Anderson recalled.
“We noticed smoke coming (out) of the vehicle and we didn’t know if the fire department was on the way, so we knew that we had to react fast,” he added. “I immediately signaled for the rest of the...
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