Dash-cam video, 911 calls give new look at drive-thru mishap


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TOOELE — Newly released dash-cam video and 911 calls document a drive-thru mishap in Tooele that left a man's head pinned between his car and a wall.

Tooele police earlier in the week said wind blew money out of the hand of the 19-year-old driver at a drive-up window of the McDonald's at 970 N. Main Street last Friday. The driver's foot somehow slipped off the brake and onto the gas as he opened his car door to pick up the money off of the ground.

"He drove his car into the concrete wall," one woman told a dispatcher in an emergency call. "He's got his head sticking out trying to get money. I don't think he's alive."

A worker could be heard in another 911 call telling a dispatcher the man was unconscious and not moving.

Dash-cam video shows first-responders break a window on the passenger side of the man's car.

Police previously said officers did so to access the ignition and gear shift to prevent the car from moving forward and causing additional injury.

Officers are ultimately seen pushing the car backward to reach the injured driver.

The man was initially listed in critical condition and was taken by ambulance to a Salt Lake area hospital, but police officials said the man had been upgraded to stable condition this week.

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