[HN VIDEO NOTES – YARMOUTH, MASSACHUSETTS]

1.) Yarmouth police and firefighters rushed to a report of a single vehicle crash near the intersection of Highbank Road and Great Western Road at around 1:00 a.m. this morning.

2.) HN tech support messaged that he believes he heard the same single vehicle crash over a mile away from the scene, in the nearby town of Dennis.

3.) While en route, first responders were updated that it was a single vehicle crash into a house.

4.) HN arrived and observed a tree (or large shrub) completely knocked over, with a home heavily damaged behind it, literally ripped wide open where the front corner of the residence once was.

5.) The car apparently spun around and landed about 50 feet from the splintered remains of the home’s front corner.

6.) A female, approximately age 38, was on the ground after being ejected, according to observations and sources. There was a gaping hole in the heavily damaged SUV’s windshield. It is believed the woman may have been ejected through the windshield, according to sources. The woman suffered a serious head injury and multi-system trauma… and was being attended to by firefighters and police. It is believed she may have been the driver as she was the only person found on scene. (Police, however, were looking into the possibility of there being a second person inside the vehicle.)

7.) The woman’s injuries were considered to be life-threatening, and an accident reconstruction unit was called to investigate.

8.) At the time of the crash, the damaged home was occupied by an “older” couple and their pet hounds. The hounds were crated near the front of the home. The couple were located toward the back of the residence. Both the couple and their hounds were uninjured. One hound, however, managed to get loose through a hole in the wall caused by crash’s destruction. A Yarmouth Police K9 Officer observed what was happening and quickly grabbed a leash to secure the pet, preventing him from wandering into harm’s way. The pet was eventually reunited with its family…

9.) The female crash victim was transported to the airport in Hyannis where she was loaded into a Medflight helicopter and flown to a Boston area trauma center. Her condition was serious, but her vitals were described as “stable” prior to the flight.

10.) The Yarmouth building inspector was called to see whether the heavily damaged home was safe enough to be occupied. (It’s uncertain whether the couple and their dogs were displaced by the crash. I later heard radio transmissions that the Red Cross may have been called while I was filming a shooting scene in a Hyannis neighborhood… developing…)

11.) The Yarmouth Police Department is investigating the cause of the crash.

12.) HN will provide official updates as they become available.

[HN VIDEO – PRESS PLAY]

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