By EMS1 Staff
PUTNAM COUNTY, W.Va. — Two EMS providers and a patient were injured after an ambulance veered off the road and into a creek Monday.
The Teays Valley Fire Department ambulance was transporting a dialysis patient when the vehicle left the road and struck a telephone pole before crashing into the creek bed.
The Putnam County Sheriff’s Department told the Charleston Gazette-Mail the driver of ambulance fell asleep at the wheel.
Emergency crews responded to the scene and transported all three to the hospital for non-life threatening injuries, reported WSAZ.
The crash is still under investigation.
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