Medic unknowingly treats her kid in crash
Girl injured beyond recognition in fatal crash was Jayme’s 17-year-old
ACanadian paramedic who unknowingly treated her own daughter after a fatal vehicle crash brushed away tears as she remembered a beautiful girl who fought until the end.
Jayme Erickson was called to the crash north of Calgary on November 15 and sat with a seriously injured girl who was extricated from the car and taken to hospital, where she died. She was unrecognisable because of the injuries.
Revelation
It wasn’t until Erickson got home at the end of the day that she was met by Royal Canadian Mounted Police officers (RCMP), who told her the patient was her 17-year-old daughter, Montana.
Erickson shared her grief with reporters late Tuesday, describing her daughter as a success at everything she set her mind to, an avid swimmer who had aspirations of becoming a lawyer.
“She was a fighter and she fought until the day that she died and she was beautiful.
She was so beautiful. If she ever put an effort into anything she would always succeed at it,” said Erickson at an Airdrie firehall with family, paramedics, police officers and firefighters standing behind her in a show of support.
Richard Reed, a friend and flight paramedic, broke down a number of times as he recounted Erickson attending the scene where a car had lost control and was struck by an oncoming truck.
Reed said. “On entering the room, to her horror, she found the girl that she had sat with in the back of the crumpled vehicle keeping alive, so the family could say goodbye ... was Jayme’s own daughter,” he added.