GREENFIELD - Patricia Coffin usually sees accident victims after they've been boarded, buckled and put on stretchers by emergency medical workers on an ambulance.
But earlier this week, Coffin, an emergency room nurse at Franklin Medical Center, found herself the first person on the scene of a car accident.
"I knew it was serious," Coffin said about her first reaction.
She and her husband, Thomas, were on Cape Cod for a weekend wedding. On Sunday morning, they were driving on West Yarmouth Road in Yarmouth to have breakfast. Ahead of them, they watched as a Chevrolet Lumina went out of control on a curve, flipped several times and hit a tree.
Coffin, who was driving, pulled over and told her husband to call 911.
"He was fabulous," she said of her husband, adding, "He didn't want to get too close."
Coffin found an 18-year-old man in the back seat of the car, having been thrown there from the driver's seat. He was unconscious, but later regained consciousness.
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