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March 3, 2011

Claim: Ambulance without siren ran red light, hit Jetta – California

A Huntington Beach man is seeking at least $10,000 in damages after an ambulance that was not using its lights or siren ran a red light and crashed into his 2004 Volkswagen Jetta, according to a claim filed against the city of Huntington Beach. Adam Tomalas, 29, says in the claim that a Huntington Beach...
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Times-Tribune news-carrier pinned underneath ambulance – Pennsylvania

While delivering the Saturday newspaper, a news-carrier for The Times-Tribune was pinned beneath an ambulance in West Side after a Scranton man ran a red light and crashed into the vehicle, forcing it into her, police said. Ryan Liberatore, 28, 425 16th Ave., ran a red light at Luzerne Street and South Main Avenue at...
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2 arrested for stealing a running ambulance in Oklahoma

EMSA public information officer said leaving an ambulance running is standard procedure By Jerry Wofford ad Susan Hylton Tulsa World TULSA, Okla. — Two men were arrested late Friday after allegedly stealing an EMSA ambulance that officials were able to track through its GPS device. The medics had left the ambulance running while they were...
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NY EMT allegedly punched by a drunk

After being placed in the ambulance, Thomas Guercio became enraged and allegedly popped the EMT in the left eye The New York Post NEW DORP, N.Y. — A drunk punched an EMT trying to take him to a hospital, authorities said. An ambulance was dispatched to a New Dorp shopping plaza on Hylan Boulevard at...
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Air bag was non-operational in NM ambulance crash

By Vic Vela Albuquerque Journal SANTA FE, N.M. — Basically, nothing went right the evening of Dec. 14, 2010 — the night a drunken, wrong-way driver crashed head on into an ambulance on Interstate 25 in Santa Fe. Kylene Holmes, the Texas woman who caused the crash, was warned not to drive after leaving a bar...
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Accident between ambulance, SUV closes down U.S. Route 52 in Wayne County – West Virginia

Herald-Dispatch.com PRICHARD, W.Va.  — U.S. Route 52 was closed after an accident between a Wayne County Ambulance and an SUV Tuesday evening, Wayne County 911 Dispatchers said. The accident happened at 9:20 p.m. Tuesday as a Kenova ambulance was en route to its station from an emergency call. Dispatchers said the ambulance was on the...
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