Vehicle Crashes
The vehicle crashes topic contains news about single or multiple car crashes, ambulance crashes as well as vehicular risks and challenges to EMS providers.
Why post-crash care matters: 42% of patients alive at EMS arrival die later
Ambulance collisions, which happen with frightening regularity, often result in injury and are occasionally fatal, especially for private vehicle drivers
You’re responsible for managing the crash scene; this includes what happens behind the scene as well as at the scene
Tim Daly, 43, is expected to spend three months in a wheelchair; Brian Nagel, 30, is hospitalized in intensive care, breathing with the assistance of a ventilator
Both vehicles were fully engulfed in flames; two were dead at the scene and four others taken to area hospitals
Two medics, a patient in the ambulance and the driver of an SUV were hospitalized after a head-on collision
Michael Burke, 23, was off-duty when his Jeep struck an abutment near a railroad bridge and he was killed
“Nobody examined her, nobody touched her, nobody protected her, moved her or did anything to take her out of harm’s way...” the teen’s family’s attorney said
The driver of the 18-wheeler is in critical condition; the 12 students on board were treated for minor injuries
He was hit by a woman who fell asleep at the wheel; both are in fair condition
Three EMTs were also injured when Walter Manuel, 79, tried to take a left turn in front of an ambulance that was transporting a patient in critical condition
The fire truck driver was alerted to the girl; firefighters did not check the teen’s vitals to see if she was alive
The helicopter crashed en route to the scene of an accident when landing near a main highway where a truck had overturned
He suffered brain damage in a car wreck that his own rescue team responded to; doctors weren’t sure he would recover but after being awake for two days he’s already relearning how to walk
The pantless man may face DWI charges, and two woman were evaluated for back and neck injuries
They were taken by ambulance to a local hospital after one driver reportedly ran a red light; drugs or alcohol may have been involved
A logging truck rear-ended a car, causing a chain-reaction collision that sent 10 to the hospital, with one man seriously hurt
All nineteen students were taken by EMS to the hospital with minor injuries
A medic suffered minor injuries, while the patient and another responder were not hurt
He was treated at the scene for head lacerations after his car slide on ice and rolled over at least twice
The U.S. aircraft crashed in England during a fire training mission and emergency workers responded to the scene
There was no patient in the ambulance, and nobody was injured in the crash
She regained consciousness inside the ambulance while paramedics were working on her and was flown to a medical center
The child, Kiber Williams, was not wearing a seatbelt at the time of the crash
Hunter LeGrand faces murder and DWI charges after hitting an ambulance head-on, killing the patient and injuring two medics
Six were taken to a hospital with minor injuries after the train hit a “bumping post;" the accident was weather-related
The 10 members of an honor guard from Fort Bragg were heading to a military funeral when the truck hit their van, sending them all to area hospitals
The plane went off the right side of the runway, flipped over and burst into flames
The three-vehicle collision also involved a fire rescue truck, and was “unavoidable” due to a sheet of ice of the road