By Michael Roknick
The Herald
SHENANGO TOWNSHIP, Pa. — An ambulance carrying an infant and two nurses caring for the child skidded off Interstate 376 Monday morning after hitting an icy patch and wound up in a ditch, police said.
The infant and the two nurses, all of whom were in back of the ambulance when the accident occurred, were taken to UPMC Horizon, Farrell, police said.
The infant had no reported injuries. The nurses were treated for what police said were non-life-threatening injuries.
The ambulance, owned by Guardian Angel Ambulance Services, West Mifflin, Pa., was headed south on I-376 just before the I-80 west exit, at around 9:30 a.m., Shenango Township police said.
Three ambulances from McGonigle Ambulance, Hermitage, arrived shortly after to assist. The driver refused treatment, police said.
The infant was strapped in a protective device weighing about 400 pounds. Police and other emergency responders helped lift the infant, who remained in the device, into another ambulance.
The sex and age of the infant wasn’t immediately available. However, township police described the child as a neonate. The medical community generally refers to a neonate as an infant who is under a month old.
J. Bradley McGonigle III, whose family owns and operates the Hermitage ambulance service, said Monday evening the infant had been at the Farrell hospital and was being transported to UPMC Children’s Hospital in Pittsburgh when the accident occurred.
The infant was taken to the Pittsburgh hospital by McGonigle Ambulance, McGonigle said.
A woman answering the phone at Guardian Angel Ambulance Services Monday evening said no one was immediately available for comment.
Shenango Township Fire Department aided at the accident scene.
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