Jim and Carrie Carroll at Carroll and Carroll, P.C. represent the injured people of Pennsylvania and New York in Bradford, Sullivan, Tioga, Susquehanna, and Chemung counties in personal injury, premises liability, slip and fall, automobile accident and workers’ compensation cases Jim and Carrie Carroll at Carroll and Carroll, P.C. represent the injured people of Pennsylvania and New York in Bradford, Sullivan, Tioga, Susquehanna, and Chemung counties in personal injury, premises liability, slip and fall, automobile accident and workers’ compensation cases
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    5/6/2008
    James R. Carroll, Jr., Esquire
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    Athens Township: Delayed emergency response leaves resident questioning readdressing

    From The Evening Times:

         "Lockhart Street resident Patricia Simmons is making sure everybody knows where her home is following a March 12 emergency in which responders couldn’t find her house.  Near midnight on that night Simmons, who lives at 552 W. Lockhart St. in Athens Township, had begun to choke, and co-resident Bill Creedon called 911. After a while of waiting for Greater Valley EMS, Simmons, who could barely speak at that point, called 911 again herself.  “I could hardly stand it,” said Simmons. “I picked up the phone and said, ‘Where are you? I can’t breathe.’ It could have ended up in tragedy. I’m so close to the hospital, it should take only three minutes. It took 20 minutes to get to the hospital.”  She added that when she arrived at the hospital she had a significant amount of water in her lungs.  Simmons’s residence is the first house beyond the border of Athens Township on the south side of West Lockhart Street, while homes across the street are counted as a part of Sayre Borough up to Pennsylvania Avenue. "

    I wonder....if this woman had died and it was due to the fact that the ambulance could not reach the residence in time due to the addressing issue, who would be responsible?
    Labels: personal injury wrongful death


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