Canada paramedic unknowingly treated daughter in fatal crash - KSL.com

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Paramedic Jayme Erickson, center, who was called to a clang past week and didn't cognize she was trying to prevention her ain girl due to the fact that the injuries were excessively severe, is comforted by her hubby Sean Erickson, arsenic she speaks to the media successful Airdrie, Alberta, Tuesday. (Jeff McIntosh, The Canadian Press via AP)

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CALGARY, Canada — A Canadian paramedic who unknowingly treated her ain girl aft a fatal conveyance clang brushed distant tears arsenic she remembered a beauteous miss who fought until the end.

Jayme Erickson was called to the clang northbound of Calgary connected Nov. 15 and sat with a earnestly injured miss who was was extricated from the car and taken to hospital, wherever she died. She was unrecognizable due to the fact that of injuries.

It wasn't until Erickson got location astatine the extremity of the time that she was met by Royal Canadian Mounted Police officers, who told her the diligent was her 17-year-old daughter, Montana.

Erickson shared her grief with reporters Tuesday, describing her girl arsenic a occurrence astatine everything she acceptable her caput to, an avid swimmer who had aspirations of becoming a lawyer.

"She was a combatant and she fought until the time that she died and she was beautiful. She was truthful beautiful. If she ever enactment an effort into thing she would ever win astatine it," said Erickson astatine an Airdrie firehall with family, paramedics, constabulary officers and firefighters lasting down her successful a amusement of support.

Richard Reed, a person and formation paramedic, broke down a fig of times arsenic helium recounted Erickson attending the country wherever a car had mislaid power and was struck by an oncoming truck.

Reed said the operator was capable to get retired of the car but the pistillate rider was trapped with superior injuries. Erickson was the archetypal idiosyncratic connected the scene. He said Erickson knew the miss was successful occupation and sat determination until she was extricated and transported to infirmary by aerial ambulance, inactive unaware of who it was.

Paramedic Jayme Erickson, center, who was called to a clang past week and didn't cognize she was trying to prevention her ain girl due to the fact that the injuries were excessively severe, is comforted by her hubby Sean Erickson, halfway right, and friends arsenic she speaks to the media successful Airdrie, Alberta, Tuesday.

"On her mode backmost she expressed her grief and vexation to her partner, knowing that aboriginal a household would apt suffer their daughter, sister and grandchild. A abbreviated clip aft arriving home, determination was a sound connected the door. It was the RCMP," Reed said.

"On entering the room, to her horror, she recovered the miss that she had sat with successful the backmost of the crumpled conveyance keeping alive, truthful the household could accidental goodbye, and owed to the grade of her injuries was unrecognizable, was Jayme's ain daughter," helium added.

"Jayme unknowingly was keeping her ain girl alive," Reed said.