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Kingston resident proposes community post-crash care team after pedestrian crash
Summary
Resident Rose Quinn urged the Complete Streets Advisory Committee to create a post-crash care team to improve survivor support, speed medical response and fix inaccurate crash reporting; county mobile mental‑health resources and a proposed webinar with Rochester were discussed but no formal action was taken.
Rose Quinn, a Kingston resident and founder of Safe Pass Ulster, recommended the committee explore forming a community post-crash care team after a recent crash that seriously injured a 77-year-old man.
Quinn told the Complete Streets Advisory Committee that the city has formally adopted the Safe System approach and that post-crash care is a required component of that strategy. She said the injured man — identified in her remarks as Gary White — was struck near his home, that reporting of the collision was delayed and inaccurate, and that a helicopter medical transport was not used though Quinn said she believed it should have been. “If we had a set of protocols in place, that would have happened,” Quinn said.
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