Two-vehicle crash at Tenants Harbor gas pump results in minor injuries for one person

Tue, 11/27/2018 - 4:00pm

    TENANTS HARBOR — One person suffered minor injuries at a gas pump at Tenants Harbor General Store, Monday, Nov. 27, as one car rolled backward into a parked truck, whose driver was filling its tank.

    As that person was pumping gas from the one gasoline/one diesel machine into a truck, a driver operating a car pulled into to park just nearby. As he got out, the car started moving. He tried to get back in but the open door propelled him onto the ground.

    The car then rolled backward into the pickup truck at the pumps, and pushed the man who was pumping gas onto the ground. 

    No one was injured, but the St. George Fire Department was called.

    Eight St. George firefighters, three emergency medical service responders and one Knox County Sheriff’s Deputy answered the 10:47 a.m. call, during the morning rain storms that soaked the coastline. They brought one engine truck and one utility truck from the Tenants Harbor fire station, which is one of three stations used by St. George Fire Department. No other stations or apparatus was used by firefighters.

    As always when fuel stations are involved, firefighters initially focused on making sure the pump was isolated, noting that no fuel had spilled, and that everything was safe and secure, according to St. George Asst. Chief Chris Leavitt.

    Store employees had already shut off power to the pump "so there was no chance of pumps being energized," he said.

    After that, firefighters acted as traffic control while EMS personnel transported the injured person to a hospital, and accepted the refusal of medical attention from the other person involved in the two-car incident.

    This is the first accident at the store involving the pumps, according to Leavitt. Other incidences there were due to people backing into each other.

    "Not a high hazard area by any means," he said.

    Like all FD departments, St. George keeps basic hazmat materials in the trucks such as pads and other absorbents.

    The fire department cleared the scene at 12:20 p.m.

    Knox County Sheriff’s Office urges drivers to make sure their vehicles are properly and securely parked.

     

    More details will be added as they become available.