What do you do with your concealed carry piece if you are in a wreck and need to be transported to the hospital and your car is going to be towed? Something to think about in case it ever happens.
I had this happen to me this morning on the way to work. Was stopped in traffic on 485 and a car 2 back from me did not stop, slammed the little girl behind me into my back end. My back and hip started hurting immediately and I never got out of the car. The FD showed up, put me in a neck brace and and I asked them what I should do with my pistol, which I had put in my back pack and did not want to disappear if my car was towed. The fireman told me to take my backpack with me and not say anything about it. When CMPD showed up, I had to inform and gave him my DL. As they put me in the ambulance, the cop tells EMS that I have a pistol in my bag. At that point, EMS cannot transport my backpack. The cop, who had the personality of a pile of shit, gets in the ambulance and says that if someone cannot show up to take possession of it before the ambulance leaves, he will have to impound it and it will be a pain in the ass to get back. I asked him to lock it in the trunk and he said he would not. He told me I could get up and drive myself to the hospital and keep possession of both my car and pistol.
So I called my boss and he had someone bring him over to get it and my car. EMS actually called dispatch and said they were waiting for someone to secure something at the scene, so they waited. EMS said that if they had not know about the pistol until we had left the scene, hospital security would have been informed and they would have kept it until I left. The NCHP trooper came to the hospital and was very nice. I asked him what I should do in this situation and he said to basically keep quite and go on with everything,
So I spent the day in the ER at CMC main from about 7:30 til 3:00 this afternoon. They did x-rays and came back and said it looked like a fracture in my L5 and a bone chip in my groin area. So then I waited 4 more hours to get a CT. Turned out, nothing was broken, but really sore.
I had this happen to me this morning on the way to work. Was stopped in traffic on 485 and a car 2 back from me did not stop, slammed the little girl behind me into my back end. My back and hip started hurting immediately and I never got out of the car. The FD showed up, put me in a neck brace and and I asked them what I should do with my pistol, which I had put in my back pack and did not want to disappear if my car was towed. The fireman told me to take my backpack with me and not say anything about it. When CMPD showed up, I had to inform and gave him my DL. As they put me in the ambulance, the cop tells EMS that I have a pistol in my bag. At that point, EMS cannot transport my backpack. The cop, who had the personality of a pile of shit, gets in the ambulance and says that if someone cannot show up to take possession of it before the ambulance leaves, he will have to impound it and it will be a pain in the ass to get back. I asked him to lock it in the trunk and he said he would not. He told me I could get up and drive myself to the hospital and keep possession of both my car and pistol.
So I called my boss and he had someone bring him over to get it and my car. EMS actually called dispatch and said they were waiting for someone to secure something at the scene, so they waited. EMS said that if they had not know about the pistol until we had left the scene, hospital security would have been informed and they would have kept it until I left. The NCHP trooper came to the hospital and was very nice. I asked him what I should do in this situation and he said to basically keep quite and go on with everything,
So I spent the day in the ER at CMC main from about 7:30 til 3:00 this afternoon. They did x-rays and came back and said it looked like a fracture in my L5 and a bone chip in my groin area. So then I waited 4 more hours to get a CT. Turned out, nothing was broken, but really sore.