STAFF PHOTO BY ERIC CARLSON
A BRUNSWICK COUNTY Emergency Medical Services (EMS) ambulance sits in the county garage
lot with about $30,000 damage caused by striking a ditch bank along rain-slick Midway Road early
Friday Morning. According to EMS Director Doug Ledgett, the unit was responding from Bolivia to
an emergency call in Southport at about 55 miles per hour when it hydroplaned on standing water and
ran off the road. Driver Wanda McLeod and fellow Emergency Medical Technician Connie Shepherd
suffered only minor injuries. Both were wearing seat belts and "following proper procedures," Ledgett
said. No charges were filed by the N.C. Highway Patrol officer who investigated the wreck.
EMTs Injured In Ambulance Wreck
Two Emergency Medical Technicians suffered minor and tree.
injuries last Friday when a Brunswick County Lewis did not file any charges and estimated damage
Emergency Medical Services (EMS) ambulance ran off to the 1992 Ford at approximately $20,000. Ledgett said
a rain-slick road near Bolivia and struck a ditch bank the vehicle sustained about $30,000 in damage.
and tree. Elsewhere in Brunswick County, the Highway Patrol
The single-vehicle accident occurred around 6:40 reported that two Leland residents were injured in a two
a.m. about one-half mile east of Bolivia on Midway vehicle accident last Wednesday about 7.7 miles south
Road, said spokesperson Rebecca Floyd of the N.C. of Leland on U.S. 17.
Highway Patrol. Driver Ervin Elbert Rogers, 74, and a passenger in
Injured were ambulance driver Wanda McLeod, 41, his 1992 Chevrolet, 68-year-old Sylvia Rogers, were
of Supply, and fellow EMT Connie Shepherd, 41, of treated at New Hanover Regional Medical Center in
Bolivia. Both were taken to Dosher Memorial Hospital Wilmington following the 4 p.m. wreck.
in Southport for treatment. The Rogers vehicle was traveling north on U.S. 17 at
Brunswick County EMS Director Doug Ledgett said the time of the wreck. A 1972 Chevrolet truck was at
the unit was responding to an emergency call in tempting to cross the highway and enter Funston Road
Southport and was traveling about 55 mph when it hy- (S.R. 1521).
droplaned on standing water and ran off the road. According to a Highway Patrol report, Rogers pulled
Both women were wearing seat belts and "following his vehicle off the right side of U.S. 17 in an attempt to
proper procedures," Ledgett said. avoid a collision. However, the truck ran into the side of
Highway Patrol Trooper D.A. Lewis reported that Rogers' vehicle.
the unit was traveling east on Midway Road when it ran Trooper B.C. Jones charged the driver of the truck,
onto the right shoulder and the driver lost control. Clayton Wayne Hewett, 44, of Southport, with failure to
The vehicle came back on the road, crossed Middle yield.
Swamp Bridge and went back off the right side of the Damage to the Rogers vehicle was estimated at
road. The ambulance came back on the road again be- $6,000, while the Hewett truck sustained only $500 in
fore running off the left side and striking a ditch bank damage.
Four Squads Sea
Two Columbus County men got
more than they bargained for when
they took their new boat on its maid
en voyage down the Waccamaw
River Friday morning.
They were found 10 hours later,
out of gas, out of the state, cold and
tired but otherwise unharmed after a
four-hour search by more than 50
volunteer rescue personnel from two
counties.
According to Brunswick County
Fire Marshall Cecil Logan, the
Nakina Volunteer Rescue Squad
called the county 911 center at about
9:30 p.m. to request assistance in lo
cating a 15-foot fiberglass boat that
had been missing on the river since
11 a.m.
"It was a new boat that they just
picked up Monday," Logan said.
"Neither of them had any boating
experience. But they sure got some."
The two Tabor City men em
barked from the Pireway bridge at
N.C. 904 in Brunswick County, but
did not tell anyone which way they
were going, Logan said. Their wives
became alarmed and called the
Nakina Rescue Squad when the men
did not return at nightfall.
Water rescue boats from the
Shallotte, Waccamaw and Tri-Beach
volunteer fire departments and
Coastline Volunteer Rescue Squad
responded along with several pri
vately owned boats to help look for
the men, Logan said. They were
split into two groups and sent up and
down the river.
rch Waccamaw For Tabor City Men
At about 1:30 a.m., one of the res- of gas.
cue crews radioed that they had "They were OK, just a little
found the missing boat near the cold," Logan said. "They learned a
Route 9 bridge in Horry County, lot that night. I don't think they're
S.C., Logan said. It appeared that likely to get back in a boat any time
the boat had broken down or run out soon.
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