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Vehicle hits Fla. ambulance leaving accident scene

Ambulance was using emergency lights and siren

By Mark Jones
The Journal-News

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — A paramedic with EVAC ambulance was treated and released from a Daytona Beach hospital this morning after his ambulance was hit while transporting two patients from an earlier Interstate 95 accident, an EVAC spokesman said.

Mark O’Keefe said he did not have specifics of what happened during the 4 a.m. incident, but his understanding is the ambulance attempted to turn around when a driver drove north through the accident scene at the 275 mile marker and rammed the emergency unit from behind.

“The ambulance was using its emergency lights and siren,” he said.

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