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
How would you stabilize a patient with neck and chest pain following a motor vehicle collision?
They suffered non-life-threatening injuries and the crash left the ambulance on its roof along the sidewalk at a corner of the intersection
She was pronounced dead at the scene; three occupants of ambulance taken to hospital with non-life-threatening injuries
Two trucks were so badly smashed that rescue workers had trouble getting past the debris
A driver veered into the opposite lane during the Granite State Wheelmen Tri-State Seacoast Century ride
Two employees and six litter crew members received minor to moderate injuries
Surveillance footage shows the car slamming into the teenagers on the sidewalk
The force of the impact caused the patient and medics to be tossed around inside the ambulance
The medics received minor injuries after their ambulance smashed into a utility pole
The passenger in the ambulance needed stitches under his left eye and had other minor injuries; the driver sustained minor injuries to both arms
He is in critical condition and not expected to live
They opened her airway and put her in a neck brace after she was partially ejected from her vehicle
She was Chatham County’s 2013 EMS Dispatcher of the Year and had worked in the communications department for two years
Two children were trapped under the car and three were treated for mild to moderate injuries
A man, who called 911, helped save the woman’s life; she was listed in serious condition at a hospital Monday
The man suffered minor injuries and was taken to a nearby hospital
David Keller, a driver, and passenger in one of the vehicles were taken to Fort Walton Beach Medical Center and were treated and later released
Authorities said a man accused of crashing a stolen truck loaded with strawberries on an interstate said he was being chased by zombies.
The ambulance was responding to an emergency call at the time
The driver said he got a brain freeze and blacked out
A driver running a red light set-off the accident
An SUV fleeing from the police collided with another car, killing all three people inside.