Fatal crashes in rural areas accounted for 51% of Texas’ 4,489 traffic fatalities in 2021, even though only about 10% of the state’s population lives in a rural area, according to data from the state’s department of transportation.
Ronnie Robison calls the Woodland Heights Medical Center to tell workers at the Lufkin facility to prepare for a patient on Friday. Robison has to call before reaching an area with no cell service to be able to warn the trauma team., our daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news.
“A lot of times we try to call a hospital but we can’t reach them,” said Robison, who operates Groveton Emergency Medical Services, one of two EMS providers in Trinity County in deep East Texas. “Then we get there, and they’re scrambling to get their trauma team ready.” “We’re the worst of all industrialized nations, and it’s clearly not inevitable since other nations have cut their fatalities,” said Robert Wunderlich, director of the Center for Transportation Safety at the Texas A&M Transportation Institute. “We’ve really got to question where we’re headed.”
“We sort of take the speed limit as our minimum entitlement,” he said. “People are not conscious of the ramifications of that.” The hour following a traumatic injury, known as the golden hour, is critical for patients. The likelihood of survival depends largely on the care a patient gets immediately after sustaining the injury. Even seconds can matter.
Thirty-nine counties in Texas have no EMS services at all, including 20 in East Texas. Private companies aren’t incentivized to enter those areas because a lack of population density renders an EMS system unprofitable.
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