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.
The 41-foot medical ambulance bus provides on-scene rehab and mass casualty incident response
Remembering and honoring two AMR paramedics killed in an ambulance collision for their devotion to family, dedication to community and compassion for others
EMS, fire and hospital personnel describe interstate collision, patient entrapment and field amputation to save a man pinned inside his truck cab by 80,000 pounds of logs
Patrick Moore put the man’s car in park and shut the engine off, an AMR crew removed the driver from the car, and Moore performed chest compressions
The vehicle made an 8-foot by 12-foot hole in the Cleveland building and caused heavy damage on the inside
A passenger was critically hurt and four firefighters had minor injuries after the crash into the fire truck that was blocking at a prior wreck scene
Prosecutors at Jose Gonzalez’s trial used his 2017 interview with police as his testimony
State police said both sustained non-life-threatening injuries in the Route 9 incident
“Thank you LAPD & LAFD for being so caring & focused,” the actor said in an Instagram post with a photo of her damaged Cadillac
Paterson firefighters used a winch to separate the cars and medical tools to retrieve the man’s leg, Chief Brian McDermott said
The patient was alert throughout the rescue
“‘He intentionally tried to kill us,’” Neha Patel told paramedics, according to San Mateo County District Attorney Stephen Wagstaffe
EMS agencies and fire departments in north and central Texas have been responding to hundreds of wrecks, including one involving an Austin ladder truck
“She was possibly going to go off the road, hit another car, another person, or worse,” said Josh Milne with Gilbert Fire and Rescue
The car’s driver and the patient being transported were flown to a hospital
The injured Malta-Stillwater EMS providers removed the patient before the rig began to burn
“We ask that you PLEASE SLOW DOWN and be observant when driving by all emergency vehicles,” the department tweeted later
Ross Comeaux told the treating paramedic he forgot something in his vehicle and was struck while crossing the highway
Other EMS providers also were hurt in the rear-end crash at the scene of a prior accident
It was “sheer luck the car landed where it was,” said Battalion Chief Dave Seneviratne
Firefighters and police officers who responded to the scene rendered care to Hudson Fire Lt. Todd Berube
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration estimates that 31,785 people were killed in crashes from January through September last year, down 0.2% from the same period of 2021
The airplane’s cockpit voice recorder, cockpit image recorder and other electronic components will be transported to the NTSB laboratory
The three people on board — a pilot, a flight paramedic and a flight nurse — are all presumed dead
The rescue of four people who survived took hours and involved helicopters and firefighters rappelling down the cliffside
The Bismarck Fire Protection Association thanked fellow first responders for their assistance
A semi struck an SUV and pushed it into an ambulance, which overturned
Acadian’s John Mitchell Crow suffered fatal injuries even though he was wearing a seat belt; a paramedic and their patient were injured
Firefighters used hydraulic rescue tools, a rope system and a helicopter to extricate and move the two children and two adults
Cass County Sheriff’s Office deputies said a car’s driver failed to yield and drove in front of the rig
“David [Campbell] made such an impact on each of us,” Rock Hill Captain Mac Thomas said
The truck can drive through up to 40 inches of water, in over 230 mph winds, up steep inclines and slopes, and can withstand 40,000 pounds of impact
Mequon’s first full-time firefighter-paramedic, Josh Lipp, was seriously injured in the incident
