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| Staff Sergeant Kurt Wiborn, a Marine recruiter with Recruiting Sub-Station Cadillac, is pictured here in his Dress Blue uniform. Wiborn and a fellow Marine aided first responders after a single-vehicle accident in Sherman Township, Mich., Aug. 8. (Courtesy photo, Kurt Wiborn) |
08.12.2016
Story by Capt. James Stenger
9th Marine Corps District
LANSING, Mich. - Two United States Marines assisted first responders Monday after a vehicle veered off a road in Sherman Township, Michigan, at approximately 6 p.m.
Staff Sergeants Kurt Wiborn and Justin Hass, Marine recruiters in Cadillac, Michigan, were driving to an appointment when they came upon the immediate aftermath of what appeared to be a single car accident.
The Marines, in their Dress Blue Delta uniforms, pulled over and immediately exited their vehicle to render assistance to the driver who had been expelled, Wiborn said.
“We did not witness the actual crash, but could tell the man flipped his vehicle,” Wiborn recalled. “We noticed a vehicle in the middle of the road. We then parked and ran to the man that was bleeding and lying on the road.”
The Marines realized they could utilize some of their combat lifesaving training to help.
“The man had multiple injuries and kept screaming about his leg. We stabilized his leg and held it into position until the ambulance showed up. We then helped by slowly rolling the man up onto his side so we could place the board underneath him. We then helped strap him onto the board when one of the EMT’s placed a neck brace on the man,” Wiborn said.
According to Wiborn, a Springport, Michigan, native, his and Hass’s actions were the result of being in the right place at the right time and having the courage to stop when others might have kept driving.
