WHATCOM – One was seriously injured after two incidents on the Lynden Road in Birch Bay, west of Lynden, on Wednesday morning, November 16.
Shaun Ward, Chief of North Whatcom Fire and Rescue Support Services, told lynden tribune After an accident, “the most important thing to do is to slow down.”
“You can’t see black ice,” Ward said. “Once you’re in it, you’re spinning in it.”
Ward explained that the two accidents were “due to the fact that an area seems to develop its own microclimate zone”.
“It was 36 degrees in my car on Bob Hall Road (between Berthusen and Sunrise roads),” Ward said. “But at the scene, no more than a quarter mile away, it was 28 degrees Fahrenheit and a layer of ice.”
The first incident report came at 7:13 a.m. when freelance writer Elisa Claassen informed forum Report a bicycle rollover accident on an icy road in a foggy day.
Ward said the driver was traveling eastbound on Lynden Road in Birch Bay when he hit a ditch to the south.
According to Ward, the occupants of the vehicle “extricated themselves and were not injured before EMS arrived.”
“The driver was transporting the BLS by Aid 63,” Ward said.
A second incident occurred in the same area on Lynden Road, Birch Bay, at 8.21am. Ward told CNN the accident “was a severe head-on collision and pickup” Tribune.
“The first (incident) has been completely ruled out and the tow truck was using the berry field access to load the vehicle onto a flatbed at the side of the road,” Ward said. “I don’t know if that caused the second incident, but when I arrived, the sand truck had just arrived at the second incident.”
In the second incident, a Toyota Prius was traveling eastbound on Lynden Road in Birch Bay and collided with a westbound pickup, Ward said, and came to a stop on a hedge in a berry garden to the north.
Ward explained that the driver of the car involved in the second crash “needed to be rescued and transported” via the M45 to PeaceHealth St Joseph Medical Center under pre-life support protocols.
“There were three other passengers in that vehicle and they were all transported on Aid 75 under basic life support protocols and two passengers were transported on Aid 61,” Ward said. “The pickup driver was evaluated and was not injured,” and was released at the scene of the crash.
Lynden Fire also responded to a second incident with Aid 75 and Medic 45, Ward said.
