Nurses try to save woman pinned by trucks on hospital ramp, South Carolina cops say
Nurses rushed to help a woman who got pinned between two trucks on a South Carolina medical campus, officials said.
But the 69-year-old couldn’t be saved and died at the same hospital on Friday, Nov. 4, according to the Charleston County Coroner’s Office.
The Medical University of South Carolina’s Department of Public Safety was called at about 5:45 p.m. to a ramp at Ashley River Tower in Charleston. The facility focuses on “digestive health, heart & vascular care, and cancer care,” officials wrote on Facebook.
A responding officer reported seeing “nurses and medical staff performing chest compressions” on a patient. EMS picked up the person, who was later pronounced dead in an emergency room, MUSC wrote in an incident report.
The patient was identified as 69-year-old Diane Zetta Royer. She was from Gray Court, a town roughly 25 miles southeast of Greenville.
In response to a request for more details about Royer’s death, MUSC told McClatchy News in a Nov. 8 email that there was an incident involving two trucks from outside vendors. Officials said she had been pinned between the trucks but didn’t immediately share additional information about the circumstances leading up to her death.
The coroner’s office in a news release said Royer died “from blunt force injuries sustained when she was struck by a motor vehicle.”
This story was originally published November 8, 2022 at 11:16 AM with the headline "Nurses try to save woman pinned by trucks on hospital ramp, South Carolina cops say."
