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.
Use a distracted driving policy to educate personnel on the risks of distracted driving and to set clear expectations for in-vehicle behavior
Three helicopters, 14 units of blood and a trauma team flown into action — the Jan. 12 crash shows how Maryland is redefining field medicine with hospital-grade interventions on-scene
Hypothermic patients, multi-systems trauma and slippery scenes present difficult decision-making challenges for rescuers
Paramedic Kyle Juarez, 37, flight nurse Marco Lopez, 42, and pilot Thomas Hampl, 49 died when their medical helicopter crashed
The SkyLife air ambulance went down Thursday night in central California killing the paramedic, nurse, pilot and patient on board
The Investigation also raised questions about the ambulance company involved in the crash
The ambulance and a vehicle crashed into a bus, causing it to strike a building
Gary Brown was assisting a victim from another vehicle collision when he was hit by a driver who then sped away
The condition of the ambulance crew, patient and truck driver is unknown and an investigation is underway
The Kansas ambulance tried to pass the truck transporting hay as the truck turned left
The bus was transporting college students to three Virginia campuses
Scott Jones, 33, died after a two-car crash sent both vehicles off the roadway and down an embankment
The wrong-way driver was being chased by police at the time of the crash
Texting and other distractions while using smartphones were believed to be part of the cause, as well as drunken, drugged and drowsy driving
A traffic stop led to a highway chase that ended with a fiery crash involving a school bus and a trooper with a gunshot wound
Flight nurse Matt Bowe was injured in a helicopter crash that killed a pilot and seriously injured a flight paramedic
A man driving an SUV was seriously injured when the ambulance crashed into his car
Paramedics involved in the Illinois crash continued treating the patient they were transporting before more responders arrived on scene
A firefighter and sheriff’s deputy suffered minor injuries in the incident
Why focusing solely on line-of-duty deaths is doing a disservice to the health and wellness of those in the industry
Medics tried to save a 50-year-old woman and a 17-year-old girl who were travelling in a small car
A car didn’t yield at an intersection to the ambulance that was travelling with lights and sirens activated
The collision between a Ride the Ducks amphibious vehicle and a bus killed five people in September
4 patients remain in critical condition after the double-decker bus crashed in San Francisco’s Union Square
Responsible for about one in five of the 829 firefighter fatalities in the past decade, fire truck crashes are more deadly than fighting a fire
The middle-aged man, struck by a Jacksonville Fire Rescue ambulance on the interstate, is critically injured with life-threatening injuries
Two of the three SUV occupants were also hurt; none of the injuries are life-threatening
The business jet clipped a utility wire on the way down, burst into flames and disintegrated after the impact
Rick Hartley, 63, was killed Friday in a crash involving his ambulance and a tractor
