Parade Road accident

A car, driven by a man who was apparently stricken by a severe heart attack, left Parade Road, careened well across a meadow and struck a tree around 11:30 a.m. yesterday.

R. Leigh Ulm, 63, of Center Harbor was taken to Lakes Region General Hospital. Information about his condition was not available at press time.

Fire Chief Ken Erickson said that had witnesses to the accident not immediately reported it, the man, whose car came to rest in a wooded area several hundred yards west of the roadway, between Windemere Road and Old Parade Road, could have gone undiscovered for an indefinite length of time. "If they hadn't seen him go off the road, we would never have found him," he said.

Sergeant Sharon Cavanaugh said that the two women who saw Ulm's 2007 black Audi sedan leave the roadway reported the accident and walked to his car, where they found him unconscious and unresponsive.

Erickson said that the women managed to remove Ulm from his car and were administering CPR when firefighter/EMTs and police arrived to find him without a pulse. Ulm was resuscitated with a defibrillator. "We had a pulse on the scene," the chief said. Unable to cross the meadow, the ambulance was parked on a dirt road nearly opposite Windemere Road and emergency personnel walked several hundred yards to treat and transport Ulm.