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Top 5 EMS videos of August 2013

Check out the top clips of the month

A man was taken to the hospital with serious injuries after his truck launched over a guardrail and an amateur cameraman captured the moment that police TASERed an apparently suicidal man as he hung from the edge of a freeway overpass, which is among this month’s top EMS videos.

A tractor-trailer flew off a section of a highway on an interstate in Boston after police say it was sideswiped by another driver and a woman who lost her left foot in an accident decided to combine her clinical expertise as an occupational therapist with her own experience of losing a limb to help others deal with amputations round out the most viewed clips in the EMS community for August.

Man seriously injured after truck flies over guardrail

The man, who was conscious and talking with police on the scene, was extricated from the vehicle with the help of the fire department.

Police TASER suicidal man hanging from bridge

Paramedics rushed forward with a wheeled stretcher and the man was taken to a hospital.

‘Haunting’ doc on dangers of texting and driving getting acclaim

The documentary tells the stories of both victims and perpetrators and was distributed to more than 40,000 high schools.

Amputee builds prosthetic leg from Legos

Her videos have become a Youtube sensation, helping others deal with new amputee struggles like phantom limb pain.

Boston tractor-trailer plunges off highway

Amazingly, the truck driver survived the crash.