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
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
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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
Both volunteers are still in critical condition after being thrown while treating a patient
38 visitors and security officers were also injured; China closed the politically sensitive space
The tight-knit service has been left reeling after the accident
The driver, two children on the bus and one child the house were injured
Her father John Dickinson, 70, and Sandra Sova, 62, were in the back of the ambulance treating a patient when they were hit by an oncoming car and tossed
One of the EMTs had been in serious condition Wednesday before taking a turn for the worse
The paramedics in the ambulance and the driver of the truck were not injured