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NY ambulance EMT involved in crash chastised earlier for texting

By Carol DeMare
The Times Union

NISKAYUNA, NY — The driver of the ambulance that ran into a snowbank earlier this week had been cautioned recently by an Albany firefighter about text messaging while driving, an official said Thursday.

Deputy Albany Fire Chief Frank Nerney said his firefighter noticed that the Mohawk Ambulance Service driver in Tuesday’s Niskayuna accident was the same driver the firefighter saw texting while she was transporting a patient to an Albany hospital.

Nerney said he called a Mohawk manager “and told him of the incident. I don’t know what Mohawk did. I reported it to them, and they were investigating. I don’t know what the investigation revealed.”

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