A mishap Wednesday morning at an accident scene that sent St. Mary’s Sheriff Tim Cameron to a hospital with a leg injury prompted a review by a prosecutor, one that the sheriff’s office reports led to citations issued against a Leonardtown firefighter.
Cameron was treated at MedStar St. Mary’s Hospital in Leonardtown and released after the 7:36 a.m. incident on Pin Cushion Road near Clements. Sheriff’s deputies responding to the accident scene found a Chevrolet S-10 pickup truck that left the road and struck a tree, the sheriff’s office reports, and the truck’s driver was suffering from a leg injury. She was placed on the tailgate of her vehicle, to elevate her leg while they waited for emergency medical crews to get there.
Cameron arrived to assist the deputies and was standing to the rear of the truck, speaking to the injured driver, the sheriff’s office reports, when a firefighting vehicle approached, driven by 61-year-old Kenneth Scully of the Leonardtown Volunteer Fire Department.
“Sheriff Cameron was struck by the fire truck and was pinned between the fire truck and tailgate of the wrecked vehicle,” according to a release posted that afternoon by sheriff’s office spokesperson Jennifer Stone. “As the fire truck continued to move forward, Sheriff Cameron was thrown to the ground.”