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.
What are the immediate hazard assessment and incident management tasks for the EMS crew that witnesses this incident?
Recent news from around the world of EMS is a continuing reminder of the dangerous and essential work performed by paramedics
Hosts Chris Cebollero and Kelly Grayson highlight the dangers of working long hours
The Trinity EMS vehicle was operating with lights and siren through a green light intersection
Air and ground ambulances transported several injured students to Pittsburgh hospitals
While world leaders debate and approve actions to reduce methane emissions and protect forests, public safety is already putting no-emission electric vehicles into service
Brandon Tysinger, a paramedic with Brunswick County EMS, succumbed to his injuries over the weekend
Wade Jones, known for his ability to stay calm under pressure, had served on the adult and pediatric flight team since 1995
Palm Harbor Fire & Rescue Firefighter-Paramedic Lt. Ashley White was struck while retrieving equipment from the staged apparatus
The driver fled the scene after rear-ending a Sun Prairie ambulance during a patient transport
The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission identified more than 190,000 ED visits due to micromobility products in the past four years
2 women were severely injured when their single-engine Cessna Skyhawk crashed in Miramar, Fla.
An ambulance crew was en route to a crash between a vehicle and a moped, when a man threw a rock, striking the passenger side of the rig
A Houston Fire Department ambulance crew was involved in a three-vehicle crash while transporting a patient
Sarah Susman, 22, was driving to work when a log truck tipped over and crashed into her vehicle
A vehicle hit two fire trucks and then a lieutenant with Palm Harbor Fire Rescue Squad 65 who was on foot
A military plane crashed in a Lake Worth suburban neighborhood
An Eagle Pass Fire Department FF-EMT was killed, and an EMT sitting in the passenger seat of the rig was flown to a local hospital with serious injuries
A driver died and multiple students were transported, Idaho officials say
A Northampton County EMS SUV was responding to an incident with its lights and sirens activated when it collided with a Toyota Corolla
EMT Logan Wade, 32, was driving supplies to Louisiana after Hurricane Ida when he and a partner stopped to render aid at an MVC
Mark Hilley – a Gulfport firefighter and Harrison County battalion chief – survived a motorcycle crash in 2019 and vowed to “never waste another day”
A McCabe Ambulance crew pulled two people from a burning car after it had crashed into a tree
Two EMTs were transported for non-life-threatening injuries after a seven-vehicle crash in Camby left a woman dead and six people hospitalized, including two children
EMT Amy Taylor began treating an injured passenger of the vehicle despite sustaining a facial and hip injury herself in the crash, police said
A 38-year-old man is in critical condition after his motorcycle crashed into a car and then slid into an ambulance Thursday night
State troopers said an “EMS truck” collided with another vehicle, killing the driver of the vehicle and a passenger
All 57 bus passengers, coming from Poughkeepsie to visit Niagara Falls, were injured in the rollover
Initial reports indicate paramedics were headed to a call when a black Honda hit them at an intersection
The woman said Robeson County EMS workers would not drive an ambulance to her house on a dirt road for fear of damaging the vehicle
A Commonwealth Health Ambulance was involved in a crash that killed an 89-year-old woman
A second ambulance was needed to bring the patient to a hospital after flames burst through the original rig’s roof and hood
Air and ground ambulance crews worked to rescue those involved in the crash on a busy Kanosh highway
