Mexican Hat Bus Crash

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Mexican Hat Bus Crash

• Sergeant Jeff Nigbur
• Utah Dept. Of Public Safety
• Public Information Officer

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Sergeant Jeff Nigbur

• -Employed by DPS/UHP for 10 years
• -Currently over all public information
  activities, including 10 other divisions
• -Variety of assignments Dive Team, SWAT Team,
  Motor Squad, PIE, and the ever sought-after PIO

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• Cell Coverage for Mexican Hat

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• 911 CALL
• January 6, 2008
• 734 p.m.
• SR-163 mile post 29
• 5 miles north of Mexican Hat Utah
• 911 calls come in to San Juan County Dispatch

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UHP Timeline

• Section manpower
• 1 Sgt, 2 Troopers
• Currently working single vehicle rollover 55
  miles north of bus crash, 1 hour to respond
• Sgt. Rick Eldrege first LE on scene

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UHP Scene Command

• Sgt. Eldrege calls for every ambulance
• Scene safety
• UHP assist EMS with triage

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Reconstruction Begins

• Field Diagram
• Photogrametry
• MAIT investigator responds
• MAIT Team Reconstructs Crash

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Communications

• Cell phone amplifiers in UHP vehicles
• Abajo peak repeater
• Omni link

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UHP Upgrades

• Car cell phone amplifiers
• Placed in select UHP vehicles

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Abajo Peak Repeater
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Omnilink

• Allows dispatches connectivity and patching
  capabilities
• Working channels can be run through other
  dispatches
• Funding from other states is difficult/
  infrastructure different in other states

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UHP Mini Helicopter Program
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PIO Media Portal
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Questions