DEKALB COUNTY, Ga. — An ambulance and a vehicle collided into a university shuttle bus, sending it into a building Tuesday morning.
The crash was apparently caused by the EMS provider, who was driving the ambulance, falling asleep at the wheel.
“He’s a good kid, and like, he just made a mistake,” Clint Parks, the medic in the back of the ambulance, told CBS46. “We work a lot, and we work long hours.”
Twelve people were on the bus, two EMS providers and a patient were in the ambulance and one driver was in the car. Ten people were taken to the hospital, including the bus driver, who was in moderate to critical condition.
Parks said they were transporting a dialysis patient when the crash occurred.
Lemonte Weaver, 20, who was driving the ambulance, admitted to officers on the scene that he fell asleep while driving.
UPDATE: Police: Driver ambulance fell asleep, causes crash with Emory bus https://t.co/LP212eaWbi -Watch Ch. 2 at 4 pic.twitter.com/yfVdDMZOXY
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