Posted on 26 July 2010
COWANSHANNOCK, Pa. — Police in Cowanshannock are investigating a crash involving an ambulance that ended up in a creek. Armstrong County emergency dispatchers said the ambulance crashed along Route 85 at about 5 a.m. near West Shamokin High School.The Citizens Ambulance Services vehicle was transporting a patient at the time of the crash, authorities [...] Continue Reading
Posted on 26 July 2010
EL PASO, TX – An ambulance transporting a patient crashed with a sedan early today on Interstate 10 East, El Paso police said. Det. Mike Baranyay, spokesman for the El Paso Police Department, said officers received a call about the crash involving an ambulance operated by Life Ambulance shortly after 2 a.m. today. The ambulance, [...] Continue Reading
Posted on 26 July 2010
PITTSBURGH, PA — A police officer is recovering after his cruiser collided with an ambulance Sunday evening in Pittsburgh’s Friendship neighborhood. The crash happened at about 6:30 p.m. as the unidentified officer was on his way to Homewood to provide backup for a call. The officer was reportedly using his lights and sirens, [...] Continue Reading
Posted on 26 July 2010
EL PASO, TX – An ambulance transporting a patient crashed with a sedan early today on Interstate 10 East, El Paso police said. Det. Mike Baranyay, spokesman for the El Paso Police Department, said officers received a call about the crash involving an ambulance operated by Life Ambulance shortly after 2 a.m. today. The ambulance, [...] Continue Reading
Posted on 26 July 2010
ALBANY, NY – Four people were hospitalized following an accident involving a car and West Glens Falls Ambulance in Queensbury on Saturday, according to the Warren County Sheriff’s Office. The crash happened at the intersection of Richardson Street and Luzerne Road. Investigators said Robert Palandrani, 71, of Ticonderoga, who was behind the wheel of [...] Continue Reading
Posted on 26 July 2010
Indianapolis, IN – An ambulance was involved in an accident on the east side Saturday afternoon. Police say a Care Ambulance was on a run northbound on Ritter Avenue when it stopped at a red light at the intersection with 10th Street. The ambulance stopped and waited for the intersection to clear and [...] Continue Reading
Posted on 26 July 2010
SOUTHBEND, IN – A Grand Haven, Mich., man is dead after a three-vehicle crash involving a Marcellus ambulance near the intersection of Michigan 40 and 78th Avenue near Lawton in Van Buren County on Saturday morning, a Michigan State Police officer has confirmed. Police and medics were dispatched just before 11 a.m. [...] Continue Reading
Posted on 26 July 2010
WESTFIELD, NJ – A Westfield Rescue Squad ambulance hit a North Avenue building Friday afternoon during a medical call, causing minor damage to the ambulance. According to a fire department source, rig 51, struck a building at 215 North Avenue West at 4;30 p.m. Friday afternoon while on a medical call. The accident caused [...] Continue Reading
Posted on 26 July 2010
Police are looking for a Wabash Valley emergency medical technician wanted on allegations of sexual battery and theft. An arrest warrant has been issued for Jason A. Jordan, 27, an EMT with Trans-Care ambulance service in Terre Haute. Jordan is accused of improperly touching a female patient while she was being transported by [...] Continue Reading
Posted on 26 July 2010
ATLANTA, GA – Coweta County EMS works became victims of an accident when a family in a car crash into the ambulance and was ejected from their car on Raymond Hill Road over the weekend. The accident happened Saturday afternoon when the driver of the van lost control on slick roads. Officials say [...] Continue Reading
Posted on 26 July 2010
KINGFISHER, OK — An air ambulance helicopter crashed in a field southeast of Kingfisher Thursday night, killing two aboard. According to Oklahoma Highway Patrol, the crash occurred about 7:45 p.m. four miles south and one and a half miles east of Kingfisher. Aboard the EagleMed flight were a pilot, nurse and EMT. No patients were [...] Continue Reading
Posted on 22 July 2010
LAKE JACKSON, TX — Lake Jackson EMS officials indefinitely suspended a lieutenant paramedic without pay Wednesday after he was charged with possessing child pornography — material an EMS official said was downloaded at the agency’s office. Brazoria County Sheriff’s deputies raided the Pearland home of Craig Wunstel, 34, on Tuesday evening [...] Continue Reading
Posted on 22 July 2010
OLD FORT, NC – State troopers have determined that a single-vehicle ambulance wreck last week on Interstate 40 was not the result of a mechanical malfunction. Trooper P.W. Ruppe of the N.C. Highway Patrol said members of the patrol’s reconstruction team examined the ambulance and found nothing wrong with the truck. “It appears the cause [...] Continue Reading
Posted on 19 July 2010
BETHEL, CT — Police charged a 60-year-old Bethel man with drunken driving on Friday after he allegedly failed to get out of the way of an ambulance responding to a medical call. Steven Deluca, of Wolfpits Road, was stopped after he allegedly failed to yield the right of way while driving on Greenwood [...] Continue Reading
Posted on 17 July 2010
ROCHESTER, N.Y. — Authorities say a man is hospitalized after he jumped out the back of a moving ambulance that was taking him to a Rochester hospital. The Monroe County Sheriff’s Office says the ambulance was transporting a psychiatric patient from Rochester General Hospital to Strong Memorial Hospital around 11 a.m. Thursday [...] Continue Reading
Posted on 17 July 2010
LONG ISLAND, NY – A Brooklyn man was arrested on charges of stealing an ambulance from in front of John T. Mather Memorial Hospital in Port Jefferson Friday morning, police said. The Terryville Fire Department ambulance, taken about 11:50 a.m., was recovered 10 minutes later about a mile from the hospital. Joseph Rey, [...] Continue Reading
Posted on 17 July 2010
BRAZIL, IN — A Clay County woman is alleging she was inappropriately touched by a male ambulance technician during an ambulance ride from Brazil to Indianapolis on Monday afternoon. According to a report provided by the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department, the woman, 26, of Brazil, was being transported from St. Vincent [...] Continue Reading
Posted on 14 July 2010
AUSTIN, TX – Austin-Travis County Emergency Medical Services said it responded to a drowning at the wrong location Sunday, due to misinformation from a 911 caller. Jesus Herrera Torres drowned, while swimming in the Colorado River, near the Montopolis Bridge. EMS responders initially responded to the area of the river near [...] Continue Reading
Posted on 14 July 2010
NASHVILLE, Tenn. – Two people were injured Monday night after an ambulance wreck on I-440. It happened around 9:00 p.m. at the I-440 and I-65 junction just past Nolensville Road. Reports were that the ambulance rolled over and two people were hurt. It was unknown whether that was emergency personnel or a [...] Continue Reading