By Kim Crawford
Flint Journal
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GENESEE TWP., Mich. — A county sheriff’s department paramedic responding to a call in Flint went off the road in a driving rain this morning.
The driver suffered injuries and was in serious condition this morning at Hurley Medical Center.
The paramedic’s sport-utility vehicle went off the west side of N. Dort Highway between Coldwater and Stanley Road and struck two trees at about 5 a.m.
Sheriff Robert J. Pickell said the SUV might have hydroplaned on water in the roadway and seems to have rolled.
“He’s undergoing a CAT scan this morning,” he said about the deputy. “We’ll know more about his injuries later.”
He described the paramedic as a man in his mid-30s and said he was responding to a call at N. Saginaw Street and Carpenter in the city.
The battered SUV was pulled from the side of Dort Highway at about 7 a.m. after Genesee Township firefighters and county sheriff’s department officers removed medical gear from the vehicle.
Initially, state police were called to the scene to investigate, but the sheriff’s department decided it would handle the matter.