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2 Idaho EMTs critical after ambulance crash

One of the EMTs had been in serious condition Wednesday before taking a turn for the worse

The Associated Press

BOISE, Idaho — Two emergency medical technicians were hospitalized in critical condition two days after the ambulance they were riding in was hit by a car.

The Idaho Statesman reports 62-year-old Sandra Sova of Mesa and 70-year-old Jonathon Dickinson of Council were listed in critical condition Thursday morning at St. Alphonsus Regional Medical Center in Boise.

Sova and Dickinson were in the ambulance tending to a patient when it was hit by a car on U.S. Highway 95 north of Boise on Tuesday afternoon. The car had swerved to avoid hiding another vehicle that had slowed to yield to the oncoming ambulance.

The ambulance driver and the two people in the car were taken to the hospital in Weiser. The patient was being transported to the Weiser hospital and was not hurt in the crash.