A man was airlifted to the Foothills Medical Centre on Friday night after suffering a gruesome injury while operating an ATV.
According to EMS officials, a man, believed to be in his mid-30s, was riding near the area of Highway 40 and TransAlta Road when he collided with a tree. The man’s upper leg was impaled by a branch roughly 8 cm (3 inches) in diameter.
The injured man was removed from the crash scene in a private vehicle to and into the care of a paramedic crew dispatched from Cochrane shortly before 8:00 p.m. Due to the severity of the man’s injury and the distance from Calgary, a STARS Air Ambulance transported the man to hospital in serious condition.
The man was airlifted with a section of the branch still embedded in his leg.
