Yuma, AZ : 2 car crashes within 24 hours require extrications on Sunday, December 11th 2016

Rural/Metro firefighters responded to two separate motor vehicle accidents on Highway 95 within the past 24 hours that both required the drivers to be extricated.

According to spokesperson Charly McMurdie, the most recent of the two accidents happened shortly before 7:30 a.m. Monday morning in the area of Araby Road between a semi truck and passenger car.

"It is so rare that we use the Jaws of Life anymore, yet we have had to use it twice on the same shift," McMurdie said. "This accident was a T-bone-type accident where the car struck a telephone pole."

After being extricated from the vehicle, the unidentified driver was transported to Yuma Regional Medical Center by Rural/Metro ambulance with unknown injuries.

"The driver of the semi truck did not go to the hospital by ambulance," McMurdie said.

The other accident, which involved a passenger car and an SUV, happened Sunday evening on Highway 95 near Avenue 4E.

McMurdie said that at about 5:30 p.m. a 911 call came into Rural Metro Dispatch reporting a vehicle accident involving two cars.

In what was also a T-bone type accident, the driver of the SUV, who was not identified, was trapped and had to be extricated.

Three patients were transported to YRMC by Rural/Metro ambulance. DPS was first on the scene in both accidents.

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2 car crashes within 24 hours require extrications