KNOXVILLE – Two emergency medical technicians were taken to the University of Tennessee Medical Center with non-life threatening injuries this morning after being extracted from an ambulance that flipped on Interstate 640, the Knoxville Police Department reported.
The 2:45 a.m. accident occurred as the ambulance approached the overpass from I-640 to Interstate 40. The driver lost control and the Rural Metro ambulance ran off the right side of the interstate, hitting a guardrail and overturning, the report stated.
Both EMTs were extracted by Knoxville Fire Department and Rescue Squad personnel.
The ambulance was en route to a call and had emergency equipment activated.
