Fox News Host, Family Injured in Crash in Montana

BOZEMAN, Mont. (AP) — Fox News host Bret Baier and his family survived a motor vehicle crash in Montana after the television anchor's SUV slid on an icy road, collided with a pickup truck and turned over in a ditch, authorities said Tuesday. Baier, the executive editor of Fox News Channel's "Special Report," said that after a weekend of skiing he was driving to the airport on icy roads outside Bozeman with his wife and their two sons on Monday when the crash happened. "I hit a big patch of ice and I could not stop our SUV," Baier said at the end of his show on Tuesday. "We slid into the intersection of a busy road and into the path of a big pickup truck, which slammed into our driver's side door. The air bags deployed, the windows shattered, we careened into a ditch and flipped sideways." Baier, 48, said a passing motorist stopped and the family was able to climb out of the flipped vehicle. He said first responders got them to a hospital quickly, from which he says they left "banged up but alive." A photo provided by the Montana Highway Patrol showed Baier's vehicle on its side in a snowy ditch. Three passengers in Baier's vehicle were treated for minor injuries that he described as "a concussion, 14 stitches on a chin, a jostled tooth and a sprained ankle." One passenger in the truck was also transported to a hospital for minor injuries, said John Barnes, a spokesman for the Montana Department of Justice. No citations were ...
Source: JEMS: Journal of Emergency Medical Services News - Category: Emergency Medicine Tags: Rescue & Vehicle Extrication News Operations Source Type: news