This blog will be some of my recollections of people and events during my 25 year career as an Animal Control Officer.
Thursday, August 11, 2011
Short Video of ACO vehicle accident
Next in order is this short video was from a late day vehicle accident an ACO had been involved in.
Luckily for me, not so much for the girl and unlike some of the other emergencies like this I had to go out to, this happened close by to the San Bernardino office in Colton. Only about 10 minutes away. So my response time was fast.
The call came in that she had been involved and I drove out and had to get off the westbound I-10 and then right back on the east bound lanes of Interstate 10. The clips shows that I saw it and couldn't get to it as the vehicles were at the center divider so I waited until she can get going since her truck wasn't damaged beyond the ability to be driven. She got going and over the radio we talked and said the truck could be driven to the shelter so it could be unloaded. She actually had been heading towards the shelter anyway as it was the end of the day and she was on call that night. So I follow her to the shelter where the rest of the video was taken.
She said and says in the video that she was just driving along in the heavy traffic and the car apparently blows a tire and the driver lost control shooting across the other lanes of traffic and right into the Animal Control Truck. She had recently gotten back this truck, it had been a brand new truck and she had gotten assigned the truck. But then she started having truck problems, breakdowns, accidents, and especially with this accident, she began to say that this truck, a Dodge Ram, must have been "possessed"!
This was just an example of the things I did as a supervisor video. Every time an employee was involved in any kind of accident, incident or injury, a supervisor was supposed to go out and check it out and do any necessary reports. I was out on many injuries, accidents, with trucks backing into things being the most common. I would think that by now the trucks would have back up monitors like many cars have.
I recall meeting up and feeling so sorry for the ACO's injured or bitten. One girl had been used as a escape route for a cat when the cat had worked loose from her control stick and had grabbed her leg and dragged it's way up her leg while she tried to pull the cat away with the control stick. It was pretty bad.
This girl wasn't hurt just shaken up pretty good. She just cleaned out her truck and got another one from the next days supervisor.
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- Tad and Stacy Brown
- We both 'retired' from working for San Bernardino County, the largest county in the U.S. in March 2006. Almost 25 years for me and almost 20 for Stacy. We now live in the panhandle of Northern Idaho and are still in law enforcement, just not Animal Control anymore. We'd NEVER move back to Southern California. Too crowded and too expensive. For us the rural lifestyle is best! We love the actual seasons that Idaho has. We also like that we're only 35 miles from Canada for trips!
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