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.
One car was under the tractor trailer and six others were piled up behind with people in various forms of injury, inside and outside of their vehicles
I jogged back to the trooper and asked if I could help. I identified myself as a medic based out of Phoenix. When he replied “Thank God” I knew I should have stayed in the car.
The New York building explosions, followed by a Texas driver who plowed through a crowd are good reminders to always be prepared
After hitting the ambulance, the vehicle veered and struck several trees, ejecting the driver
Kalama Firefighter-EMT Alan Basso was found to be in cardiac arrest after his vehicle crashed, shortly after he responded to two medical emergencies
The Deming Fire Department ambulance was rolled over onto its side in the crash
The crash in Minnesota killed the pilot and a flight nurse, and seriously injured a flight medic
Alaska NTSB Chief Clint Johnson said the investigation into the crash that killed Pilot Patrick Coyle, Flight Medic Margaret Langston and Flight Nurse Stacie Morse has been “very challenging” and led to many dead ends
The memorial at Elko Regional Airport includes a bronze plaque inscribed with the names of the pilots, flight medics and flight nurses killed in the Access Air and American MedFlight crashes
One EMS provider was injured and the driver of the car was seriously injured after becoming trapped
Police say a van struck the side of the Brewster ambulance as it was puling out of a gas station, causing it to flip on its side; two medics became trapped in the wreckage
Lifeguard Anthony Capuano, who lost one of his legs after being struck by a train in 2009, is being hailed as a hero after leaping into the water and swimming the driver to safety
Officials said the private ambulance helicopter crashed near the helipad at Los Angeles County-USC Medical Center
Lessons in communication, coordination and safety from an unusual response involving several inmates
Providers were stopped and responding to reports of a stabbing when the woman careened into the parked ambulance
In the incident aftermath, the suspect fled the scene after being instructed to wait to exchange information
The providers needed help escaping the vehicle and were later transported to the hospital with minor injuries
The cause of the crash remains unclear; DOC officials said all inmates are accounted for
Crozer Health Paramedic Lt. Nick Cull was released from a rehabilitation center Friday after suffering serious injures in the crash with a school bus
Two paramedics, a patient and another driver went to the hospital after the crash between a Brewster Ambulance rig and a car Sunday night
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Falck has begun test flights of remotely-controlled drones and is working toward drone flights with medics on board within the next five years
The bus was stopped and the ambulance was transporting a patient when the crash occurred in 2019; one lawyer said his client, who was on the bus, suffered permanent injury
The patient had suffered smoke inhalation and was being transported to the hospital when the ambulance was struck by another vehicle
Two Cincinnati Fire Department members were injured and another driver died after the collision Thursday night
Three Forest Park EMTs and a critical patient were injured when another vehicle rear-ended the rig
Officials said the Crozer Health medics needed to be extricated and one of them was intubated
Wood-Ridge Firefighter Daniel O’Beirne, who was on his way to his job as a corrections officer, and Inspira Medical Center Emergency Medicine Physician Assistant Jordan Reed worked together to save the driver
Three people in the ambulance, including a patient, were among the injured
Officials said the two emergency vehicles were not responding to the same call at the time of the crash
Police said the ambulance was turning into the hospital entrance when the crash occurred
Police said a distracted driver struck the rig while swerving around another car that had stopped for the truck
The bill was introduced after reports that first responders took photos at the scene of a helicopter crash that killed nine people, including basketball star Kobe Bryant
Cetronia Ambulance Corps Paramedic Sam Yerkes was only a mile away from the station when he was hit by a vehicle and throw into the air
