MAN FLIPS CAR – END OVER END

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Lorain – Firefighters in Lorain had to get down in the mud early Tuesday morning after a man crashed his car on West 21st Street.

Police say the man told them that he had been drinking at a local bar before driving his Chevy Cavalier Convertible down West 21st Street. The man drove the car off the right side of the road flipping it end over end before coming to rest in a ditch.

Captain Jeff Fenn of the Lorain Fire Department said that from the time they received the call until the man was freed was 30 minutes. “We had to first determine the best and safest way to extricate him from the car. We initially thought we would work on removing him from the passenger side (north side) of the car but after inspecting how the vehicle was resting on the ground in the ditch we felt it was safest to take him out through the drivers side (closest to the road).”

Firefighters were able to stabilize the vehicle before using the Jaws of Life to cut the door off. Once it was removed a Firefighter was able to crawl inside of the car to assist getting the man out.

Once the man was removed from the car Paramedics from LifeCare Ambulance treated him on the scene. As the man was being loaded into the ambulance a Metro LifeFlight helicopter was landing in a field across the street.

Captain Fenn said he is unsure as to the condition of the man but did say that he was conscious and talking to them throughout the extrication process.

The man was flown to MetroHealth Medical Center in Cleveland.

Police on scene say that although the investigation is ongoing, the man will likely be charged with OVI.

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