There's miles and miles of road and desert. "The farther you get away from the trauma center, the clock starts ticking down there," Tellez said. It's hard to tell if any more lives might have been saved by arriving to a trauma center faster that day, Tellez said. "If we had the airships there sooner, they could have … just offloaded patients right into the airships to go to the trauma center." The center is the closest trauma center for crash victims along the Interstate.

Source: Los Angeles Times May 14, 2024 15:10 UTC