A 39-year-old North Charleston man was seriously injured in a single-car high-speed wreck on Charleston Highway (S.C. Highway 64) at Nettles Lane on Monday morning March 9 at 8:04 a.m.
First arriving units found the vehicle down an embankment on the westbound side of the highway. The vehicle appeared to have dropped off of the shoulder, over-corrected and entered the ditch, striking and breaking a power pole.
The car received heavy damage, trapping the driver inside the wreckage. The driver suffered multiple traumatic injuries and was unconscious when responders arrived.
Firefighter-paramedics entered the vehicle and began treating the man, while other crewmembers stabilized the car with struts. They then used rescue tools to extricate the man from the vehicle.
The man regained consciousness while in the car. The CARE Flight helicopter responded to the baseball field at the Neyles Community Center.
The man was extricated with full spinal precautions, then transported from the scene to the Neyles Community Center by ambulance with additional firefighter-paramedics onboard.
He was transferred to the flight crew without incident, then flown to the Trauma Center at MUSC in Charleston.
The S.C. Highway Patrol is investigating the crash.
