Ambulance Safety
This directory offers a curated selection of articles on Ambulance Safety, focusing on best practices for EMS professionals. Topics include safe driving techniques, equipment securing, and protocols to minimize risks during transport. Prioritizing Ambulance Safety is essential for protecting both patients and EMS personnel. Additionally, explore our resources on emergency vehicle operations, which are closely related to maintaining safety standards in the field. Use this directory to stay informed and ensure that your ambulance operations adhere to the highest safety standards.
Recommendations to reduce lights and ambulance siren use to less than 50 percent of responses and 5 percent of transports presented during EMS Focus webinar
If the EMS profession truly wants to prioritize safety, we must address distracted driving and all the ways we currently make it worse
Officials are using the hashtag #HeatStrokeKills to spread the message about this preventable tragedy
Great strides have been made in ambulance safety, design and operation, but significant risk still exists
The EMS provider who was driving the ambulance told police the semi did not have its lights on while parked over the line on the side of the road near the exit.
The side of the vehicle was shorn off in the crash and the upside down gurney and inside of the ambulance was visible to those passing by
Vehicular homicide charges against Crystin Keys were dropped as part of the settlement
Officials said the pedestrian ran in front of the ambulance that was returning from a patient transport
The man was charged with driving under the influence of alcohol, criminal impersonation and leaving the scene of a property collision
Fire and EMS agencies owe their crews, and the citizens they serve and protect, competent fire apparatus and ambulance driver/operators
Crews were transporting a patient to the hospital when a driver crashed into the ambulance and fled the scene
The crew was still inside when Adam Zaharick stole the ambulance, drove to a CVS and crashed it into a pole
Authorities said that one bus rear-ended a car, which caused a second bus to rear-end the first bus
While Erika Anderson was being loaded into an ambulance, a fire department vehicle was stolen
The woman, who had the right of way, was later charged with possession of marijuana and OWI
Officials said the ambulance collided with another car, causing it to go off the bridge and fall about 30 feet into a creek
Officials said EMT Krista McDonald was pronounced dead on the scene and another EMT was transported to the hospital in serious condition
The string of nearly 30 vehicles lined up to honor 24-year-old EMT Marina DeSteno Challeen
Marina DeSteno Challeen, 24, died after the ambulance she was riding in struck a stalled semi
Officials said the driver of the ambulance, paramedic Susanna Kelly, was also injured but is expected to survive her injuries
The ambulance hit a parked car, which hit another car and pushed it into a home, causing damage to an outside wall
Officials said an ambulance headed to one call crashed into a Vallejo Fire Department Ford Explorer headed to another call
Dump truck driver Jerry Clark said he was unaware the ambulance was approaching when he turned
Matt Deicher died from injuries he suffered in a 2003 ambulance rollover
The ambulance T-boned a car while going through a red light; no EMS providers were injured in the crash
Some parents took children to be checked for injuries, in addition to the three taken by ambulances
The ambulance was responding to a crash caused by a road rage incident between a couple in two different vehicles
Officials said the ambulance did not stop when it was told to do so, causing an incident that forced NASCAR driver Matt Kenseth out of the race
Reports said a calf and an elk died after jumping over a highway median and colliding with an ambulance
After a power pole fell on the patrol car, the two responders were stuck inside for two hours before workers could disconnect the line
Witnesses said the driver of the ambulance was speeding and swerving like a drunk driver
A large moving van struck the rear of the ambulance during a thunderstorm with heavy rains
The ambulance was transporting a patient when the garbage truck hit it from behind, totaling the vehicle
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