By Carolyn Tuft
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Copyright 2008 St. Louis Post-Dispatch
BOONE COUNTY, Mo. — A paramedic was injured early this morning when the ambulance he was riding in hit several deer in the road as it was on an emergency run.
The Missouri Highway Patrol reported today that Matthew H. Parvin, 31, of Jamestown, was moderately injured while taking care of a patient in the back of the 2005 Ford E450 ambulance when the ambulance hit several deer.
The accident happened at 1 a.m. in the northbound lane of Highway 63 about a half mile south of Angel Lane in Boone County near Columbia.
The driver, Rexx A. Morrison, 42, of Eldon, was driving at a normal rate of speed when the accident happened, the patrol said.
Parvin was taking care of a patient in the back of the ambulance when the accident occurred, the patrol said.
Parvin and the patient he was caring for both made it to the emergency room of University Hospital in Columbia without further problems, the patrol said.