WESTLAND, Mich. — The photo of two paramedics who appear to be posing in front of a truck that crashed into a tree was upsetting to injured driver Jake Glover, 20, who said they should have been rushing to help him, not smiling for a camera.
But the woman who took the photo contacted FOX 2 News on Twitter, and said they were doing no such thing. The medics didn’t know she was taking their photo, and when they saw her they asked her to move along, she said. She took it to show her 16-year-old driver what could happen if she wasn’t safe, she said, and later sent it to Glover over Twitter to say she was at the scene and was wondering how he was doing.
The photo shows Glover’s truck smashed into a tree. One paramedic is standing outside the truck and a second paramedic is inside the truck. The victim, believed to be Glover, is inside the driver’s seat. Upon seeing it, Glover got upset and said it looked like the paramedics were being unprofessional by posing in the photo and not doing their job.
Glover suffered multiple broken bones, cuts and bruises. A seizure may have caused him to crash.
Wayne-Westland Deputy Fire Chief Patrick Harder told FOX that his crews followed protocol, and did nothing wrong. They were standing by the truck waiting for proper equipment to assist Glover, he said.