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.
Use a distracted driving policy to educate personnel on the risks of distracted driving and to set clear expectations for in-vehicle behavior
Three helicopters, 14 units of blood and a trauma team flown into action — the Jan. 12 crash shows how Maryland is redefining field medicine with hospital-grade interventions on-scene
Hypothermic patients, multi-systems trauma and slippery scenes present difficult decision-making challenges for rescuers
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
While the victims were being loaded into an ambulance parked in the middle of the intersection, a vehicle struck the ambulance
The woman’s injuries are life-threatening and the surviving child is expected to live
A firefighter who approached the group to see if anyone needed medical attention was attacked and punched in the face by a man
The fire truck was responding to an auto accident and investigators say pedestrian was not using a crosswalk
The injured medics and the driver of the other vehicle all were taken to a hospital for evaluation
Volunteer firefighter Steven Whitcomb tried to save 30-year-old Katie Hamilton without recognizing his youngest daughter
Eleven people received minor injuries and two received moderate injuries when the bus went off the shoulder of an interstate