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On-board patient dies after ambulance, jeep crash in Ohio

79-year-old Wonona Carpenter died during a routine medical transport

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BELMONT COUNTY, Ohio — NEWS9 has learned a patient involved in an ambulance crash last week in Belmont County didn’t survive.

Ohio State Highway Patrol brought in an accident reconstruction unit Tuesday to continue the investigation. It’s unclear whether charges will be filed against the ambulance driver.

There were no lights and no sirens on at the time of the crash. It was just a routine medical transport when 79-year-old Wonona Carpenter, of Quaker City, was inside an Emergency Medical Transport ambulance.

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