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Sen. Frist Helps Victims in Florida Crash

Reuters
Thursday, January 2, 2003; 8:23 AM

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Incoming Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist won praise on Thursday for using his skills as a medical doctor to help the victims of a fatal automobile accident on Florida's Alligator Alley on New Year's Day.
Capt. Ken Kronheim of the Broward County Fire and Rescue Department said Frist, a second-term Tennessee Republican, stopped to help six people ejected from their Isuzu sport utility vehicle when it rolled over after a tire blew out.
"He was instrumental in helping us sort out the critical patients," Kronheim told CNN.

Frist, named to succeed Sen. Trent Lott of Mississippi to lead the Republican majority in the Senate, is a trained surgeon. He was traveling with his sons to a family vacation in Fort Lauderdale at the time of the accident.
Kronheim said one of the six passengers in the Isuzu, a 10-year-old girl, was killed in the accident on Wednesday.

Frist's office issued a statement saying his heart went out to the family involved in the crash. "As a doctor, my first instincts are to help and I was privileged to offer my assistance today at the scene of this horrible accident."
"He helped tremendously," Tammy Riddle, another Broward County emergency technician who responded to the scene, told ABC's "Good Morning America."
Capt. Jeffrey Andrews said he worked side by side with Frist to help one of the victims resume breathing, but did not recognize him until later.
In 1998, Frist used his medical skills to help the victims of a shooting at the U.S. Capitol.