Woman Injured In 4-Wheeler Accident Thanks Firefighters

BALL GROUND, GA — A Cherokee County woman who was injured last month in an accident involving a 4-wheeler stopped by a local fire station this week to thank the first responders who saved her life.

Jessica McCoy, 28, visited Cherokee County Fire Station No. 2 at 420 Valley Street in Ball Ground Tuesday to thank the firefighters and paramedics who responded to the call of her accident.

Just after 7 p.m. June 29, Cherokee County 911 dispatchers received a call of the accident in a pasture on Lower Dowda Mill Road in the northern part of the county. McCoy was riding on the four-wheeler through tall grass when she struck a large rock, Cherokee County Fire and Emergency Services said.

"I went down a hill and I saw rock boulders and when I came back up the hill, I couldn’t see them because of the tall grass, so I hit a big rock like a concrete slab," she said.

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Firefighters arrived to find McCoy with severe injuries to her head. Paramedic Billy Pflugrad said McCoy had a shirt wrapped around her head and when he removed the garment, he could see the patient's skull.

They were able to apply trauma dressing to the wound, and kept tabs on her condition because of the possibility should have suffered a brain injury or "something that we couldn't see," Pflugrad added.

McCoy was transported by ambulance to WellStar Kennestone Hospital in Marietta for treatment. She underwent two CAT scans to see if her neck was broken. She also received 24 stables down the left side of her head and 23 stitches on the front.

“I was freaking out the whole ride there because I was afraid that I would lose my memory,” she said.

McCoy, who visited the station with her four children, thanked the firefighters for their life-saving efforts.

“It could have been worse, but I felt like I was in good hands that day," she said.

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Images via Cherokee County Fire and Emergency Services