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Red Wings limo crash, 20 years later: Doctors recall the surreal night

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Twenty years later, the medical staff who took care of the Wings after crash remember the most surreal night of their careers.

Dr. James Robbins had just gotten home when his beeper went off. There’d been an automobile accident. Multiple victims. He was the on-call trauma surgeon that night, and his emergency room at Beaumont Hospital needed him.

Robbins arrived at the ER not long before 10 p.m. and heard the rumors almost as soon as he got past the double-doors: a couple of Red Wings players might have been involved in the crash.