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Tenn. ambulance crash sends 2 to hospital

The driver lost control and the ambulance ran off the right side of the interstate, hitting a guardrail and overturning

Knoxville News-Sentinel

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — Two emergency medical technicians were taken to the University of Tennessee Medical Center with non-life-threatening injuries Saturday morning after being extracted from an ambulance that flipped on Interstate 640, the Knoxville Police Department reported.

The 2:45 a.m. accident occurred as the ambulance approached the overpass from I-640 to Interstate 40.

The driver lost control and the Rural/Metro ambulance ran off the right side of the interstate, hitting a guardrail and overturning, the report stated. Both EMTs were extracted by Knoxville Fire Department and Knoxville Volunteer Emergency Rescue Squad personnel.

The ambulance was en route to a call and had emergency equipment activated.

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