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EMS crew get probation after crash victim overlooked

The Mich. crew failed to find the man, who was in the front seat of the crashed car, and told dispatchers no one was there

By Dominic Adams
MLive

FLINT, Mich. — Two ambulance workers will be closely monitored for six months and were ordered to undergo eight hours of additional training after the pair allegedly failed to see a man in the driver’s seat of a car that crashed into a tree.

The Genesee County Medical Control Authority board met earlier this month and reviewed the actions of Mobile Medical Response – the Saginaw-based EMS company that responded to the July 18 crash that left 28-year-old Cortez Cheathams dead.

It took five calls to 911 – and 1 hour and 48 minutes – before Cheathams’ body was discovered slumped over in the front seat of the crashed car on North Chevrolet Avenue near West Jackson Avenue in Flint.

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