By EMS1 Staff
PROSPECT, Ohio — Two people died when a wheelchair ambulance collided with a semitrailer on a state highway in Ohio on Tuesday afternoon.
The Stofcheck Ambulance Service vehicle crossed the center line at about 4 p.m. in Delaware County, striking the truck, The Associated Press reported.
Highway Patrol Lt. Gary Lewis was quoted as saying the person driving the wheelchair ambulance and a patient inside both died.
No one else was in the ambulance, he added.
The two people killed in the crash were later identified as Eddie Petersheim, 28, and the patient, Lloyd G. Cochran, 56.
“While the driver was a trained EMT, by state law they do not respond to an emergency. They are a transport vehicle,” Delaware County EMS Chief Rob Farmer told NBC4.
The driver of the semi was taken to the hospital but his condition was not life-threatening.
An investgation is under way into the cause of the crash.