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.
Following a freeway crash, EMS workers find than a spinal immobilization is not necessary, and opt for a rigid collar instead
How would you stabilize a patient with neck and chest pain following a motor vehicle collision?
Knowledge of roads, vehicles, drivers are critical to safe arrival at emergency
Muskegon County’s “Yellow Dot” program will allow first responders to render needed treatment more quickly after a crash or medical emergency
The Limon Area Fire Protection District rig was heavily damaged but no injuries were reported in the crash
Daniel O’Beirne and Jordan Reed, two strangers with fire and EMS backgrounds, worked together to save a driver whose semi-truck struck a pole and burst into flames
Police determined the employee who was driving the rig failed to yield at a red light
The NTSB’s report on the Bismarck Air Medical crash that killed the pilot, a paramedic and a nurse states the plane broke up in flight after the pilot failed to maintain control in dark night conditions
Michael Smithback reunited with his rescuers at a Baraboo Ambulance Commission meeting last week where he thanked them saving his life after a serious head injury
Police said the driver was distracted by an argument with another driver when he rolled into the ambulance
The ambulance was struck by a car at an intersection while running lights and sirens on Thursday
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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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
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