CEDAR RAPIDS, IA (CBS2/FOX28) - A driver--impaled by large metal pipe --still called 911 for help. It's a story we first told you about yesterday. It happened early Wednesday morning when police say the woman's car crossed the center line on Zika Avenue NW and crashed into a fence. Now the 9-1-1 conversation between the driver, 27-year-old Kelsey Cummings, and dispatch has been released. Some of the portions of the recording, we warn, may be disturbing. Operator: 9-1-1 what's the address to your emergency? Cummings: I need help, I'm in a car accident, I'm gonna die if I don't get help. The pipe punctured the car's grill, radiator, battery and her pelvis. Cummings: Please come help me. My body's starting to shake. Operator: Yeah I've got help for you, I'm just trying to get a better location for you. Cummings: Ok I'm on Zika Avenue, I'm very close to the back of the park. She told the operator the pole was going through her body. Every day we come to work, we don't know what we're going to get, says EMT Supervisor Christopher Soukup. He says he has responded to emergencies like this one where a patient has been impaled. If removing the object is going to make it worse, you know, increase blood loss or have the potential of doing more patient harm, leave it in place. If it's something that there's not a lot of option but to cut around things, like if it's a longer object, make it shorter that way transport doesn't in turn make the patient's safety compromised as well, he says. He says he considers it rather remarkable that a woman in her situation was still able to call for help. Cummings: I'm gonna freeze to death if they don't come soon. Operator: Ok, alright, we've got help on the way ok? Dispatch sent an ambulance, the fire department and police. They reached her Buick LeSabre about six minutes later. Cummings honked the horn to help them find the vehicle. Cummings: Ok they found me. We've made calls to the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, but right now there isn't any word on her condition.
