{"id":15878,"date":"2018-07-20T14:46:16","date_gmt":"2018-07-20T19:46:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/georgiaarsoncontrol.org\/?p=15878"},"modified":"2018-07-20T14:46:16","modified_gmt":"2018-07-20T19:46:16","slug":"woman-injured-in-4-wheeler-accident-thanks-firefighters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/georgiaarsoncontrol.org\/?p=15878","title":{"rendered":"Woman Injured In 4-Wheeler Accident Thanks Firefighters"},"content":{"rendered":"

(Canton Patch<\/a>) \u2013\u00a0A Cherokee County woman who was injured last month in an accident involving a 4-wheeler stopped by a local fire station this week to thank the first responders who saved her life.<\/p>\n

Jessica McCoy, 28, visited Cherokee County Fire Station No. 2 at 420 Valley Street in Ball Ground Tuesday to thank the firefighters and paramedics who responded to the call of her accident.<\/p>\n

Just after 7 p.m. June 29, Cherokee County 911 dispatchers received a call of the accident in a pasture on Lower Dowda Mill Road in the northern part of the county. McCoy was riding on the four-wheeler through tall grass when she struck a large rock, Cherokee County Fire and Emergency Services said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI went down a hill and I saw rock boulders and when I came back up the hill, I couldn\u2019t see them because of the tall grass, so I hit a big rock like a concrete slab,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Firefighters arrived to find McCoy with severe injuries to her head. Paramedic Billy Pflugrad said McCoy had a shirt wrapped around her head and when he removed the garment, he could see the patient\u2019s skull.<\/p>\n

They were able to apply trauma dressing to the wound, and kept tabs on her condition because of the possibility should have suffered a brain injury or \u201csomething that we couldn\u2019t see,\u201d Pflugrad added.<\/p>\n