Emergency medical technicians provided medical care to Nathaniel Medina, 3, within minutes of arriving at the scene of a single-vehicle crash July 15, according to Pewaukee Fire Chief Kevin Bierce.
That account is at odds with previous news stories, which questioned whether Nathaniel's treatment was delayed while rescue workers tended to his parents, Nicholas Dischler and Kellie Deal, who were also injured in the crash
Dischler fell asleep behind the wheel and crashed into a tree around 5:50 a.m. near Rocky Point Road and Prospect Avenue, according to a criminal complaint filed in Waukesha County Circuit Court. Dischler is accused of driving drunk at the time of the crash.
A Waukesha County Sheriff's Department deputy at the scene said on the dispatch radio about 10 minutes after arriving that the child was "unharmed and sleeping in the back seat." The child's parents had also told officers that Nathaniel was sleeping in the back seat after the crash.