By EMS1 Staff
NORTHAMPTON COUNTY, N.C. — A paramedic crashed a quick response vehicle while responding to a shooting.
The Daily Herald reported that assistant paramedic supervisor Michael Barnes ran a stop sign before hitting a tree.
“It appears Barnes suffered a medical emergency, running through a stop sign into the woods and hitting a tree,” Northampton County EMS Supervisor Paul Nowell said. “That’s what his wife was told yesterday at the hospital.”
A witness said Barnes may have been unconscious at the time of the crash, because the vehicle passed through the stop sign without slowing.
Barnes was airlifted to a hospital, where doctors said the crash could have been caused by an “unknown underlying medical condition.”
Nowell said the quick response vehicle was totaled, and the call Barnes was responding to resulted in the patient being flown to a hospital.
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