Traffic was stalled on Interstate 95 in Chatham County early Sunday after a string of crashes, including one involving a police car and an ambulance.Savannah-Chatham Metropolitan Police were investigating a wreck on I-95 north between the Interstate 16 and Ga. 204 exits when the … [Read more...]
BOXER-CLAD MOTORIST CHARGED IN ASSAULT OF PA. PARAMEDIC
By Patrick LesterMorning Call (Allentown, Pennsylvania)Standing nearly naked in the cold after crashing his car in Bedminster Township last week, a Montgomery County man insisted someone poured acid on him and torched his car, then he beat up a paramedic after an ambulance crew … [Read more...]
YORK, Pa. -- Authorities said a woman being rushed to York Hospital was pronounced dead after the ambulance she was being transported in was involved in a collision. Officials said five people were injured Tuesday when the ambulance from Biglerville collided with a car at the … [Read more...]
A chain-reaction crash on a snowy interstate highway involving about 50 vehicles, including an ambulance carrying patients, killed one person Thursday, officials said. A 10-mile stretch of Interstate 90 was closed for hours in both directions after the early afternoon accident. … [Read more...]
WORKERS RESCUE AMBULANCE TRAPPED BY FALLEN TREES – UK
WORKMEN came to the rescue after an ambulance became trapped by fallen trees in last weeks storms. The drama unfolded on Rivacre Road last Thursday when the medics arrived to help a motorist after a tree had landed on a car. But just as they were about to take the driver to … [Read more...]
MINOR INJURIES REPORTED IN AIR AMBULANCE PLANE CRASH – PITTSBURGH
A Cessna Citation II twin-engine airplane crashed in Butler Wednesday morning, WTAE Channel 4's Andrew Stockey reported. Four people were on board an Air Trek air ambulance that, according to witnesses, overshot a runway while landing at Butler County Airport. The plane slid off … [Read more...]
HEART ATTACK STRIKES N.Y. PARAMEDIC DURING CLASS
By Carl Macgowan Newsday (New York)Copyright 2007 Newsday, Inc. A training session for fire department paramedics turned into a real-life drama Friday when one of the students went into cardiac arrest. Three paramedics from Long Island and a lieutenant from Howard Beach sprang … [Read more...]
CAR CAUSED UNION COUNTY EMS UNIT TO CRASH – FLORIDA
A Union County ambulance carrying a patient to the hospital overturned on state Road 121 on Sunday night after a car forced the vehicle off the road, according to the Florida Highway Patrol. Two EMS workers and three passengers in the ambulance suffered minor injures and were … [Read more...]
AMBULANCE HITS CAR – PENNSYLVANIA
Six people were injured, including two with life-threatening injuries.Daily Record/Sunday NewsJan 23, 2007 — Six people were injured - including two seriously - when an ambulance collided with a vehicle at routes 30 and 616 in West Manchester Township this morning. The York … [Read more...]
MEDICS, VICTIM CAUGHT IN CRASH – CAMDEN, NEW JERSEY
A man is recovering from two separate injuries overnight. First he lit himself on fire. Then, the ambulance taking him to the hospital crashed overnight in Camden. Authorities tell Action News that the man had been using rubbing alcohol when he accidentally set himself on fire … [Read more...]