Ambulance crashes
Car slams into HCFR ambulance; driver in serious condition
Posted on 10 March 2010
MURRELLS INLET, SC (WMBF) – An Horry County Fire Rescue ambulance has suffered damage after being involved in a two-vehicle collision in Murrells Inlet Tuesday night. Accident investigators with the South Carolina Highway Patrol say a car rear-ended the ambulance just before 11 p.m. on US-17 Bypass in the area of Tournament Boulevard. The driver of the [...] Continue Reading
General News
Valley EMS head enters alcohol education program
Posted on 10 March 2010
DERBY — A Superior Court judge today granted an ambulance official charged with driving under the influence entry into the alcohol education diversionary program. Jerorme Schwab, director of the Oxford Ambulance Association and president of the Valley Emergency Medical Services, must complete 15 sessions in the program, attend a Mothers Against Drunk Driving victim impact panel [...] Continue Reading
General News, Health and Safety
Virginia EMS Supervisor Hits Firefighters With SUV
Posted on 10 March 2010
HERNDON, Va. – Two Fairfax County firefighters treating a bicyclist along a road were struck by a vehicle operated by a supervisor Tuesday night. Both firefighters have been released from the hospital, and are recuperating at home, said Dan Schmidt, fire department spokesman. He did not know the condition of the bicyclist. Schmidt said the EMS supervisor was [...] Continue Reading
LODD
Pa. paramedic dies chasing mentally disturbed patient
Posted on 10 March 2010
Earlier media reports suggested his death may have been part of an altercation BENSALEM, Pa. — A paramedic initially thought to have been killed in an altercation with a mentally disturbed patient suffered a heart attack, according to latest reports. Daniel McIntosh, 39, was responding to a report of a suicidal person on Sunday night when the patient ran away. McIntosh gave [...] Continue Reading
Uncategorized
Portland EMS employee facing drug charge
Posted on 10 March 2010
PORTLAND, IN — An employee of Jay County Emergency Medical Service has been arrested on drug-related allegations. Zachary R. Gaskill, 25, 522 E. Main St., Portland, is charged with possession of a controlled substance, a Class D felony carrying a standard 18-month prison term. A trial date has not yet been set in Jay Superior [...] Continue Reading
LODD
Paramedic dies after responding to call
Posted on 10 March 2010
BENSALEM, PA – A Bensalem paramedic is dead after responding to a call about a subject believed to be suffering mental illness, police said. Police say the man approached the paramedic as they responded to a Bensalem home at about 7 p.m. Sunday. The paramedic was injured and taken to Aria Health’s Torresdale campus, where he [...] Continue Reading
Ambulance crashes
Ambulance crunches light pole in Pinole, no one injured
Posted on 10 March 2010
SAN JOSE, CA – An ambulance swerved out of control and hit a light pole near Fitzgerald Drive in Pinole Sunday afternoon, putting the light pole out of commission but causing no injuries, police said. The American Medical Response ambulance was responding to an emergency call at a nearby Motel 6 at 1:31 p.m. with sirens [...] Continue Reading
Ambulance crashes
Ambulance, pickup collide
Posted on 10 March 2010
FALLSTON, NC – One person was left with minor injuries after an ambulance and pickup truck collided in the middle of the intersection at Fallston Road and E. Stagecoach Trail Saturday. A gray Ford pickup truck was struck by an Upper Cleveland Rescue ambulance around 10 a.m. The bumper of the emergency vehicle was smashed, crunched into [...] Continue Reading
Ambulance crashes
Ambulance wreck injures driver, EMT
Posted on 10 March 2010
Durham, N.C. — An ambulance driver responding to a call was speeding when her vehicle ran off N.C. Highway 751 and overturned Saturday morning, injuring herself and an emergency medical technician, state troopers said. Troopers said that Amanda Vanschaack, 21, of Pittsboro, was driving the ambulance belonging to Johnston Ambulance Service between 65 and 70 mph [...] Continue Reading
Ambulance crashes
Huron Valley Ambulance struck from behind by SUV on US-23
Posted on 10 March 2010
PITTSFIELD TOWNSHIP, MI – An ambulance and SUV were involved in a crash on southbound US-23 in Pittsfield Township Friday afternoon, causing serious injuries to the SUV driver and minor injuries to a paramedic, officials said. The crash occurred around 3 p.m. on southbound US-23 south of I-94 in Pittsfield Township. State Police officials said the ambulance [...] Continue Reading
Ambulance crashes, Uncategorized
Paramedic in Fort Pierce ambulance crash has leg amputated
Posted on 10 March 2010
FORT PIERCE, FL - A paramedic seriously injured when an SUV slammed into the side of an ambulance in which he was a passenger has had to have his leg amputated. Christopher Doyle said he has no recollection of the late Tuesday afternoon crash, which bashed in the passenger side of the ambulance, but he said [...] Continue Reading
General News, Lessons Learned
Paramedic hit by distracted driver
Posted on 04 March 2010
ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. (WOFL FOX 35) – Chad Lowery is home from the hospital, sporting a neck and back brace. “I know that I’m pretty fortunate to come away with just the injuries that I have,” he said. The 37-year-old engineer paramedic with the Orange County Fire Department was working a motorcycle accident [...] Continue Reading
Uncategorized
Ambulance Crew Under Review After Child’s Death
Posted on 04 March 2010
WASHINGTON, D.C. – An ambulance crew has been suspended after refusing to take a child to the hospital. The child died several hours later. Two-year-old Stephanie Stephens of Southeast was buried Tuesday. The hours and events leading up to her death are now at the heart of an investigation into the actions of the ambulance crew [...] Continue Reading
Ambulance crashes
SUV crashes into ambulance, injuring medics
Posted on 04 March 2010
FORT PIERCE,FL — One person is dead and two others were injured following a Tuesday evening crash at a Ft. Pierce intersection between an SUV and an ambulance The crash happened shortly after 6 p.m. near the intersection of Virginia Avenue and 25th Street. According to police spokeswoman Audria Moore, a white Nissan SUV was driving on [...] Continue Reading
Ambulance crashes
Bethlehem crew treats man who allegedly hit their ambulance
Posted on 04 March 2010
BETHLEHEM, PA – Bethlehem police said a man crashed into a parked ambulance on Saturday night and police said he was under the influence of marijuana. The crash happened around 11:45 p.m. when the ambulance was parked in the city’s lot in the 500 block of Stefko Boulevard. Police said when Edwin Quinones, 32, struck the unoccupied [...] Continue Reading
General News
Teen dies after highway jump from SC ambulance
Posted on 04 March 2010
GREENVILLE, S.C. — A teenager has died after jumping out of a moving ambulance on an interstate highway in South Carolina. Multiple media outlets reported the 16-year-old boy died shortly after the leap near Greenville while be was being driven to a psychiatric hospital in Columbia Coroner Mike Ellis says the teen was restrained on a gurney [...] Continue Reading
General News
Beaufort County EMS, fire district deny allegations in wrongful death lawsuit
Posted on 04 March 2010
BEUFORT COUNTY, SC – Beaufort County EMS and the Bluffton Township Fire District have denied allegations in a lawsuit filed in December by a Bluffton woman who said an ambulance’s delay at an unmanned security gate in her neighborhood led to her husband’s death. Both county EMS and the fire district ask that the suit be [...] Continue Reading
Ambulance crashes
Pickup and ambulance collide in Lower Valley
Posted on 04 March 2010
PROSSER, WA — A Grandview man was taken to a local hospital this morning after his truck collided with an ambulance that was rushing to an emergency call in Mabton. The accident happened at about 9:30 a.m. as Cesar Luna, 34, drove west on State Route 22 in his 2001 Dodge pickup. He was about to turn [...] Continue Reading
Ambulance crashes
Ambulance struck by car in Glenolden; 3 injured
Posted on 04 March 2010
GLENOLDEN, Pa. – February 28, 2010 (WPVI) — Delaware County authorities are investigating an overnight accident involving an ambulance from the Folcroft Fire Department that injured several people. The 2-vehicle crash happened around 2:30 a.m. on Chester Pike near the intersection of Ashland Avenue in Glenolden. Police say the ambulance was transporting a patient to Taylor [...] Continue Reading
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