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Multible ambulances, Mercy Flight respond to motor-vehicle accident on Roberts Road, Basom

By Howard B. Owens

Three ambulances have been requested to the scene of a motor-vehicle accident in the area of 1910 Roberts Road, Basom.

Mercy EMS and Oakfield's ambulance have been requested to the scene.

Mercy Flight is responding from Buffalo and Batavia.

Alabama Fire responding.

UPDATE 6:06 p.m.: First Mercy Flight ETA is four minutes. All victims are out of the vehicles. No extrication is required.

UPDATE 6:18 p.m.: One Mercy Flight is on the ground. The pilot of that of the first Mercy Flight has said a second landing zone needs to be established because Mercy Flight 7 sits closer to the ground and cannot land in the cornfield used for the first landing zone.

UPDATE 6:27 p.m.: Mercy Flight 7 on the ground.

UPDATE 6:39 p.m.: Mercy Flight 7 in the air. If the first Mercy Flight has left the scene, we missed the call.

UPDATE 6:46 p.m.: One flight headed to ECMC, the other to Strong.


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Jason Reszetucha

From YNN Rochester Emergency crews responded to accident on Roberts Road in the town of Alabama. It happened about 6 o'clock Saturday evening.

The Alabama fire chief says a group of six hunters was on the side of the road speaking with a DEC officer when they were struck by a car.

According to the chief, Five people were taken to the Erie County Medical Center with one taken by Mercy Flight. One person was taken by Mercy Flight to Strong Hospital. One person was taken to the hospital in Medina.

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