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.
Why post-crash care matters: 42% of patients alive at EMS arrival die later
Ambulance collisions, which happen with frightening regularity, often result in injury and are occasionally fatal, especially for private vehicle drivers
You’re responsible for managing the crash scene; this includes what happens behind the scene as well as at the scene
NHTSA reviewed 10 years of data on ambulance crashes to understand patient and provider safety
The truck rumbled down an embankment before hitting the cars, including one that was pushed into the dealership showroom
Bystanders, including a retired LA firefighter, rushed to help five children ejected from a vehicle on the interstate
Man arrested on DUI charges after speeding through a red light and hitting the minibus
The pregnant woman was being transported to the hospital after a car crash when the ambulance collided with a deputy’s vehicle
A man crashed his car into the woods and ran into a yellow jacket nest
Michael Golden Jr. died Wednesday evening in a head-on collision
The Buffalo Police Department is exasperated by long wait times for Rural/Metro ambulance responses
The first ambulance struck the second ambulance, leading to the chain reaction collision
Mahmoud Ghannam, an Essex-Windsor EMS medic, was not wearing a lifejacket and drowned after his canoe capsized
The Ohio ambulance caregivers, patient and SUV driver had significant injuries
The experienced driver, who was also injured, trained other bus drivers
One of the first paramedics to respond to the jet crash details how EMS dealt with the major incident
The driver, four passengers and a person in the building were injured
Seven of the nine boys were in the pickup’s bed; driver airlifted to hospital in satisfactory condition
Lt. Hubert Harrison Jr., 63, served with the Baltimore County Fire Department and Community Rescue Service; the crash occurred after his fire dispatch shift
Police expect emergency workers to find more bodies as they clear the crash wreckage from the freeway
Relatives of all 3 Americans are proud of the heroic actions to subdue the gunman and treat the injured
Witnesses say the Hawker Hunter fighter jet appeared to have crashed into a nearby road after it failed to pull out of a loop maneuver
3 children were killed and triage was established for those injured after the bus overturned around a curve on a wet road
The ambulance was returning to the station after a call and did not have lights or sirens activated
The woman, Delores Scott, 73, and her dog were killed; an EMS supervisor sustained minor injuries in the crash
The boy told a dispatcher his mother and sister were dead and he didn’t know where he was; police found the vehicle because he honked the horn
Footage from four angles shows the Miami crash, which injured 7 responders and 5 civilians
Both planes caught fire and broke apart when they hit the ground after colliding while approaching a California airport
Leonard Robinson was known for visiting hospitalized children; he was checking the engine of his Batmobile on side of a Maryland highway and was struck by a car
Plane carried 54 people and nearly half a million dollars to deliver to poor families
The ambulance was then hit by a truck and pushed into a SUV driving by
A small boat with six teenagers on a late-night river trip crashed into a bridge
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