Paramedic who attended fatal accident did not realise it was her own daughter
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A paramedic who unknowingly responded to a serious car crash, involving her own daughter has publicly spoken out about the tragedy.
Jayme Erickson from Alberta, Canada was dispatched to a collision at 4:30 pm on November 15 and tended to two injured patients.
One of the patients was critically injured and trapped inside a vehicle.
In a Facebook post, Erickson explained she tended to the critically injured person trying to free them from the wreckage.
Once the air ambulance arrived and took over, Erickson’s shift was done for the day and she went home. However, once she walked through the door, she received the life changing news that her daughter was involved in an accident.
“The Royal Canadian Mountain Police were at my door to inform me that my daughter had been in an accident,” Erickson wrote.
“The critically injured patient I had just attended to was my own flesh and blood. My only child. My mini-me. My daughter, Montana.”
Erickson said she had not recognised the patient as her own daughter because of the horrific nature of her injuries.
She rushed to hospital where she was told her 17-year-old would not make it.
“I will cherish the memories we made and the time we had together. I am shattered. I am broken. I am missing a piece of me. I am left to pick up the pieces and expected to carry on,” Erickson wrote.
Erickson fronted the media on Wednesday, a week after the crash, alongside her co-workers and friends and family.
Speaking about her unimaginable loss, several colleagues comforted Erickson when she began to break down.
“(Montana) meant the world to all of us,” she said.
“This tragedy is not only felt here by this community, it’s felt throughout the province and maybe even the country.
“I think every first responder can relate to the pain that we’re feeling. Nobody wants to go through anything like this.”
Erickson described her daughter as a “firecracker” and a “fighter”.
“She fought until the day she died,” she said.
A fundraiser has been set up to help Montana’s parents as they try to navigate the world without their daughter.
Image: Nine News
A paramedic who unknowingly responded to a serious car crash, involving her own daughter has publicly spoken out about the tragedy.
Jayme Erickson from Alberta, Canada was dispatched to a collision at 4:30 pm on November 15 and tended to two injured patients.
One of the patients was critically injured and trapped inside a vehicle.
In a Facebook post, Erickson explained she tended to the critically injured person trying to free them from the wreckage.
Once the air ambulance arrived and took over, Erickson’s shift was done for the day and she went home. However, once she walked through the door, she received the life changing news that her daughter was involved in an accident.
“The Royal Canadian Mountain Police were at my door to inform me that my daughter had been in an accident,” Erickson wrote.
“The critically injured patient I had just attended to was my own flesh and blood. My only child. My mini-me. My daughter, Montana.”
Erickson said she had not recognised the patient as her own daughter because of the horrific nature of her injuries.
She rushed to hospital where she was told her 17-year-old would not make it.
“I will cherish the memories we made and the time we had together. I am shattered. I am broken. I am missing a piece of me. I am left to pick up the pieces and expected to carry on,” Erickson wrote.
Erickson fronted the media on Wednesday, a week after the crash, alongside her co-workers and friends and family.
Speaking about her unimaginable loss, several colleagues comforted Erickson when she began to break down.
“(Montana) meant the world to all of us,” she said.
“This tragedy is not only felt here by this community, it’s felt throughout the province and maybe even the country.
“I think every first responder can relate to the pain that we’re feeling. Nobody wants to go through anything like this.”
Erickson described her daughter as a “firecracker” and a “fighter”.
“She fought until the day she died,” she said.
A fundraiser has been set up to help Montana’s parents as they try to navigate the world without their daughter.
Image: Nine News