RALEIGH - Wake County EMS-5 collided with a passenger car Tuesday morning at the intersection of New Hope Road and Capital Boulevard. En route to a call off Buffaloe Road, EMS 5 was traveling eastbound when struck by the northbound car about 6:20 a.m. Both paramedics were … [Read more...]
An emergency crew escaped injury Monday morning after an alleged drunk driver hit their ambulance and flipped it on its side. It happened just after 2: a.m. On east 28th street and Park Avenue South.The two paramedics were responding with lights and siren to a call when the … [Read more...]
PARAMEDICS IN ‘LUCKY ESCAPE’ AFTER CAR SMASH – UK
By Mark LaveryPARAMEDICS had a lucky escape after a car ploughed into their ambulance as they dealt with an emergency call. The two-man crew were treating an elderly patient who had suffered a fall at a house on Spittal Hardwick Lane, Castleford, when a red Peugeot 206 smashed … [Read more...]
PARAMEDICS IN 'LUCKY ESCAPE' AFTER CAR SMASH – UK
By Mark LaveryPARAMEDICS had a lucky escape after a car ploughed into their ambulance as they dealt with an emergency call. The two-man crew were treating an elderly patient who had suffered a fall at a house on Spittal Hardwick Lane, Castleford, when a red Peugeot 206 smashed … [Read more...]
DON’T MIND ME, SAYS PARAMEDIC IN CRASH – UK
A PARAMEDIC has been praised for his heroism after defying pain from his injuries in a crash and thinking of others first. The 999 crew member was rushing to an emergency call when he was forced to swerve into a tree to avoid a car that had pulled out in front of him. Despite … [Read more...]
PARAMEDIC PATIENT STEALS AMBULANCE, LEADS EDMONTON POLICE ON CHASE
Canadian PressPublished: Tuesday, January 02, 2007 EDMONTON (CP) - Nearly a dozen Edmonton police vehicles, including a helicopter and a dog handler, followed a stolen ambulance early Monday morning as it blew through red lights and veered across roadways - its lights and … [Read more...]
AMBULANCE TRANSPORTING A PATIENT HITS POWER POLE – PITTSBURGH, PENNSYLVANIA
An accident overnight turned a paramedic into a patient. Officials say that a city ambulance with a patient on board stuck a pole around 3:15 a.m. on the Northside. The crash happened at the intersection of Clayton and Langley. According to police, the pole along with its … [Read more...]
DON'T MIND ME, SAYS PARAMEDIC IN CRASH – UK
A PARAMEDIC has been praised for his heroism after defying pain from his injuries in a crash and thinking of others first. The 999 crew member was rushing to an emergency call when he was forced to swerve into a tree to avoid a car that had pulled out in front of him. Despite … [Read more...]
SECOND ANCHORAGE FIRE DEPARTMENT AMBULANCE CRASH CLOSES HIGHWAY – INDIAN, ALASKA
For the second day in a row, an Anchorage Fire Department ambulance has been involved in a wreck while transporting a patient. On Friday afternoon the Girdwood community based ambulance was traveling between Girdwood and Anchorage when it crashed on the Seward Highway while … [Read more...]
TWO PARAMEDICS, ONE EMT INJURED IN CRASH – ANCHORAGE, ALASKA
An Anchorage paramedic is in the hospital in serious condition and two others were treated and released after a collision between an ambulance and a pickup truck on Airport Heights this morning. The accident occurred during the transport of a seriously injured patient to the … [Read more...]