MORRISTOWN, N.J. (AP) — Officials say a northern New Jersey council member died shortly after helping treat his 19-year-old daughter and another person who had been involved in a car crash.
Eskil “Scott” Danielson, a member of the Andover Borough Council and an emergency services unit, was dispatched to a crash Saturday afternoon along state Route 206 on the border of Byram Township and Andover Borough.
Authorities say the 49-year-old father learned that his daughter Alycia was involved in the crash and helped treat her and the occupant of the other vehicle.
Danielson suffered a massive heart attack and collapsed while waiting at a Newton hospital to check on his daughter. He was airlifted to a Morristown hospital Saturday night where he was pronounced dead.
Officials say Alycia Danielson has been discharged from the hospital.
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Tragic. RIP.
So sad, so very sad.
This is so tragic, how frightened he must have been. His poor family.
I hope his daughter doesn’t carry the weight of his death on her shoulders. The daugher being in a wreck may have precipitated the heart attack, but it’s just as likely he was living on borrowed time and that any stressful event would have triggered it. RIP.
It’s a dad thing. I cannot imagine the emotional load of this man during and after the treatment. Did I do enough? Will she be OK? I only hope that his final thought was that he helped his child, because if you are a dad, that’s important.