Charlottesville TSA Employees Rush to Help Car Crash Victims
News & Happenings
March 12, 2007
Three TSA employees at Charlottesville Albemarle Airport (CHO) in Virginia were heading to the parking lot after work last month when a convertible on a nearby road went out of control and flipped over.
Transportation Security Officers Carlos Alvarez and Patricia Stevens and Supervisory TSO Robert Cary ran to the scene, with Alvarez calling 911 and Cary contacting Airport Public Safety.
Alvarez and another person who had stopped to help forced open the driver’s side door, cut a man from his seatbelt and pulled him from the car. Stevens immediately applied first aid to the man’s head wounds.
The man said his wife was still in the car. Alvarez and several other people on the scene lifted up the back of the car and Cary helped pull the woman out. She was given CPR and the TSA employees continued to give medical attention to the victims until emergency personnel arrived.
“I am exceedingly proud of the quick thinking, resourcefulness and compassion that Carlos, Patricia and Robert displayed,” said CHO Federal Security Director Tom Davis.
The man survived, but his wife succumbed to her injuries.
