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.
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
As the students piled out of their vehicle to help, paramedic and professor David Fifer’s first worry was for their safety
The Charleston Police Department said that four people were transported to a hospital, including the two EMS providers and two from the involved cars
Truckee Meadows Fire & Rescue Chief Charles Moore was transported with chest injuries and abrasions
A driver plowed into a single car crash scene, killing EMT Matthew Madigan and the 36-year-old driver of the initial crashed vehicle
The downed craft was called to evacuate a hiker suffering from breathing problems and chest pains; the hiker was found and transported separately
West Firefighter Edward Hykel was injured in the 2013 fertilizer plant explosion
EMS providers transported one person to a medical center and the other declined treatment
“We’ve got a car continually hitting us from the rear,” EMS providers told dispatchers
A fellow Pro Care EMS employee and an SUV driver were killed in the head-on collision
The workers were pronounced dead on scene, and EMS providers transported one patient to a medical center
The 97-year-old star of stage and screen was not transported to a hospital
A Pro Care EMS employee and the driver of the SUV were killed, and two people were injured, officials said
A fund created by the measure would give first responders financial resources to replace equipment, pay workers overtime and address other urgent costs
The preliminary report did not include a probable cause for the Nevada crash that killed all five people aboard
An Austin Travis County EMS medic was preparing to exit the ambulance through the back doors when the vehicle was struck by an alleged drunk driver
The EMT driving the rig and two additional EMTs were transported in stable condition
The Life Force helicopter was severely damaged, and all aboard were transported to hospitals
Osborn and his Uber driver helped pull the man from the vehicle to safety, and waited with him for first responders to arrive
11 people have died on planes owned and operated by Guardian Flight
The settlement sum aims to resolve the remaining claims in a lawsuit over deputies and firefighters sharing photos of the NBA star’s fatal helicopter crash
The company is also hosting a webpage where people can post condolences
Taney County EMS providers treated and transported two occupants of a damaged “Dukes of Hazzard”-style orange Dodge Charger
The air ambulance apparently broke apart before the crash, according to the NTSB
According to Care Flight, all aboard died, including the pilot, the flight nurse, the flight paramedic, the patient and a member of the patient’s family
The St. Tammany District 7 crewmember sustained multiple fractures, was extricated from the overturned fire truck and airlifted to a medical center
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
