Thread: Boy, 16, dies after being crushed by minivan seat in school parking lot despite 2 cal

Boy, 16, dies after being crushed by minivan seat in school parking lot despite 2 calls to 911

By Madeline Fish | Fox News
7 hours ago

Ohio authorities are investigating how a student was crushed to death in the back of a minivan at a school parking lot despite calling 911 two times with his exact location.

The Hamilton County Sheriff’s Office is launching an investigation into the death of 16-year-old Kyle Plush, whose body was discovered by his father six hours after he called 911 begging for help and giving dispatchers the correct description of the minivan and his location.

According to audio recordings, Plush called 911 at least twice Tuesday afternoon while he was trapped in the 2002 Honda Odyssey minivan outside Seven Hills School. The third-row seat flipped and had him pinned inside.

“I’m going to die here,” the sophomore told the dispatcher during his first 911 call, which was placed shortly after 3 p.m. Tuesday. “I probably don’t have much time left. Tell my mom I love her if I die.”

The dispatcher can be heard asking for his location several times but it was unclear whether Plush heard the operator’s questions, according to police.

Meanwhile, Cincinnati police and a Hamilton County deputy sheriff responded to the area but couldn’t locate Plush. The dispatcher attempted to call Plush’s phone but there was no answer.

During his second 911 call, at 3:35 p.m., Plush explained to another dispatcher that “this is not a joke.”

"I am trapped inside my gold Honda Odyssey van in the parking lot of the Seven Hills. ... Send officers immediately. I’m almost dead.”

According to Cincinnati Police Chief Eliot Isaac, the information about the make and model of the vehicle was not relayed to the responding officers because the “dispatcher did not communicate with the caller.”

During the recordings, responding officers can be heard saying they had checked vehicles in the area but could not see anyone inside and eventually left the scene. An officer even suggested it could be a prank caller.

Six hours later, a family member found the minivan with the teenager’s body inside.

The Hamilton County coroner ruled the death as a case of accidental asphyxia due to chest compression, determining that there had been no foul play.

“Something has gone terribly wrong,” Isaac said at a Thursday news conference. “We need to find out why.”

According to Isaac, the dispatcher who answered the second call was placed on administrative leave and an investigation into how the death happened -- looking at human and mechanical elements -- has been launched.

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2018/04/12...ls-to-911.html

Heart-breaking. Poor kid. Poor parents. His father found him. Just when you think you've heard it all.

Why didn't he call his mom or dad?

Originally Posted by Beezer

Why didn't he call his mom or dad?

He may have and we just don't know that yet. I wondered the same thing, maybe they were at work.

If you play dumb games, you win stupid prizes.
The article is poorly written.
The kid finally got his Darwin Award.

I have none to give...

Originally Posted by Boomslang

I have none to give...

So why did you? Haven't you heard that saying "If you have nothing nice to say, don't say anything at all."

Everything is a joke to you!

Boomslang, I didn't understand your post. Are you blaming the kid??!! That's what it sounds like. Based on the last report I heard on it, the cops were apparently standing right outside the van he was in when he called back the second time to tell them it wasn't a prank, apparently he could hear them saying it must be a prank, but they couldn't hear him. Maybe he was too weak to yell or outside sounds prevented them from hearing him. I can't imagine anything more awful.

I haven't seen much on how it happened. I heard he was reaching over the back seat and the back went down. Apparently, it was his own weight pinning him. Between not being able to breathe and probably unable to freely move his hands, he could not see the phone or get it to his ear. 9-1-1 may have been all he could think to dial. At that point he probably could not yell loud enough for the police to hear him.

I just can't get it in my mind how a third row seat could do this. Are they automatic? They lay down so you can load stuff right and somehow it's slammed down on him and he couldn't raise it back up? Why couldn't he raise it back up and slip out? It must have a motor, some button to stop it he couldn't reach. OH MY GOD, horrible, police right there and they can't see or hear him. Just when you think you've heard it all. SELL THE MINIVAN. Mechanical seats only, no motors.

REPORT: 911 dispatcher who answered call from boy crushed by minivan seat complained about job days before incident (video)






April 13, 2018


DML News

The 911 operator who answered a Cincinnati teen’s call before he was crushed to death by a minivan seat Tuesday complained on social media days before the tragedy about having to work overtime.


Amber Smith groused about her job on her personal Facebook page a few times, the most recent being last Friday, the Cincinnati Enquirer reported Thursday.


The article goes on to state the following:


In May 2017, Smith wrote a post “venting” about how working overtime makes her and her co-workers “hate our job.”


“I’m always at work and working overtime…all it does [is] make us hate our job and hate the people that are off for months…Just feel like venting. That’s all. Nothing will change,” she wrote.


Kyle Plush, 16, had called 911 at least two times Tuesday afternoon, while he was trapped and slowly being crushed to death in a 2004 Honda Odyssey minivan, after the the third-row seat flipped and trapped him while he was trying to retrieve his tennis equipment.














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