Police and Passerby Rescue Woman from Flipped SUV
Millburn Police Crash Investigation Team is reviewing the accident.
Millburn Police Sergeant Robert Ronceray responded to a one-car collision on Friday night, when an SUV flipped over on Essex Street in front of La Cucina/Clemenza’s around 9 p.m.
Inside the vehicle, the driver, Edye Schlossman of Millburn, lay unconscious, and Ronceray and a passerby pulled her from the vehicle, started CPR on her and resuscitated her, said Millburn police spokesman Peter Eakley.
“She is very lucky,” Eakley said, that the officer and the citizen were there so quickly and able to revive her.
Schlossman was taken to a hospital, Eakley said. She was later released and, when reached, said she did not want to talk about it.
A neighbor, who saw Schlossman be revived and taken off in an ambulance, said two passengers were also in the SUV but walked away from the accident unharmed.
The accident remains under investigation by the Millburn Police Department Crash Investigation Team, Eakley said.
Brett Biebelberg
11:14 pm on Monday, November 21, 2011
Great story. Another good reason to get trained in CPR and keep your training current!
John Fonseca
10:34 pm on Tuesday, November 22, 2011
I would like to understand how an SUV can end up inverted on a low speed limit road that's usually thick with parked cars, as the result of a single car collision. I assume the lady had some sort of attack which caused her to lose control and get the car tripped up on something. But then how did she end up laying unconscious in the inverted vehicle?
I'm glad everyone's ok and all, but it just must have been an interesting sequence of events in order for the end result. And how lucky there was a police officer there so quickly, only a few yards from the police station!!!