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
The two EMTs were taken to a hospital for evaluation; the patient they were transporting was not injured
Without violating patient confidentiality, what are some of those crazy cases you’ll never forget? Add your stories to the comments
The passenger plane crashed after trying to land at an airport in the city of Kazan
Two drivers are expected to recover, no word on the third after nearly 40 horses escaped from a nearby farm and wandered on dark, rural roads; at least 6 horses were killed
The EMT told police he ran the red light with lights and siren activated when the ambulance struck the side of the pickup
He pleaded guilty to vehicular homicide, driving under the influence and following too close in the 2012 crash that killed Jason Dale Strickland, 37
They were taken by ambulance to a local hospital with non-life threatening injuries
The driver said the young man gave him the finger and yelled racial slurs when he asked him to move; the driver ran over the man’s stomach
Of the injured EMTs and sanitation workers, one had to be extricated from the truck that jumped curb and struck a wall surrounding a building
The driver crashed into the ambulance as it was coming out of a parking lot with lights and sirens blaring, and a patient on board
The injured included two young children and a pedestrian
All five people were taken to area hospitals with non-life threatening injuries
EMS took two people to a hospital for treatment and the ambulance crew was also checked out
Jennifer Hesselbein was loading a patient into an ambulance when a truck hit both of them
The medics and SUV driver that hit them were taken to a hospital; a fire truck and police vehicle were also hit while blocking traffic at the scene
The paramedics were taken to the hospital as a precaution; the car’s driver was taken to a hospital for unspecified injuries
There’s probably a few that stand out; let’s hear em
Some of the skydivers were sent tumbling upon impact, but all were able to steer away from the falling debris
The driver of the SUV fled after the crash and the patient and two medics are being treated for minor injuries
A faulty exhaust gas temperature sensor can cause the engines to stop and not be restarted for at least an hour
Of those accidents, 70 percent of the time the ambulance wasn’t running lights and sirens
Tractor trailer rigs can be seen piled up with passenger cars smashed in between in this fatal wreck that authorities say was caused by a dust storm
Although the medic was driving the ambulance to an emergency, policy says to stop at red lights and look both ways
Neither sibling made it to the hospital alive, and the family is now burying two young adults ages 20 and 21