Michigan ambulance crew overlooks victim in fatal crash

theGRIO REPORT - A Michigan ambulance crew arrived at the scene of a fatal car crash but did not find the body of the driver.

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A Michigan ambulance crew arrived at the scene of a fatal car crash but did not find the body of the driver, instead telling dispatch that the car was empty and only coming back to the scene at the insistence of a neighbor.

Flint police, Genesee County health officials and the private ambulance company, Mobile Medical Response are now reviewing the shocking incident, reports MLive.

It took an hour and 48 minutes after the first 911 call for the body of 28-year-old Cortez Cheathams to be found, but it wasn’t the ambulance crew who found Cheathams. Instead, it was a resident from a nearby home, Devon Johnson.

Johnson heard the crash and realized that he had not seen anyone get out of the car, so he called 911 to report the crash. That was at 4:12 a.m. Nine minutes later, he called again, saying that there was still no sign anyone had gotten out of the car. An ambulance was sent at 4:25 a.m, but when EMTs arrived a minute later, they could not find a body and reported that the car must have rolled away.

According to the Daily News, Mobile Medical claimed its first crew got out of the ambulance shined lights on the scene, but couldn’t find anyone.

A third call at 4:34 a.m. and a fourth at 5:10 a.m led to Johnson being told that police were too busy, so Johnson took matters into his own hands and looked into the wreck, where he discovered Cheathams’ body. He then called 911 a sixth time to report a trapped body.

After another 20 minutes, a second crew finally retrieved Cheathams.

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