The Associated Press
via Charlotte Observer (North Carolina)
GREENSBORO, N.C. — The parents of a woman who jumped from a moving ambulance and was fatally injured want Guilford County to pay for $2.3 million, saying medics failed to properly restrain their mentally ill daughter.
Alma Jean Collins, 28, was injured early Feb. 11, 2005, when she unbuckled her safety belt, opened the rear doors of the ambulance and jumped out as it drove 40 mph. She died six days later.
Archie and Jean Collins claim two emergency technicians erred by not properly restraining their daughter, who had bipolar disorder. They also say she was left unattended when one technician turned her back to give her colleague directions to a hospital.
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