By Chris English
PhillyBurbs
MONTGOMERY TOUWNSHIP, Pa. — The Newtown Ambulance Squad should put controls in place to make sure their drivers aren’t operating vehicles under the influence of drugs or alcohol, Newtown Township supervisor Matthew Benchener said at Wednesday night’s meeting.
His comments came after one of the squad’s emergency medical technicians, Nicholas White, was fired and faces criminal charges for an April 14 incident in which he allegedly was driving an ambulance while intoxicated. White and another squad employee were transporting a patient from St. Mary Medical Center in Middletown to a Montgomery Township facility for a mental health evaluation, according to police accounts.
White, of Philadelphia, hit a curb and flattened a tire while pulling the ambulance over on a Route 1 Superhighway access road near Neshaminy High School in Middletown, police and ambulance squad officials said. He failed two field sobriety tests, police added.
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