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
All 243 passengers and crew aboard the train have been accounted for
More than 200 people aboard were injured and at least seven were killed; it’s the nation’s deadliest train accident in nearly seven years
Responders describe a woman hanging upside down from the ceiling of the train car, and a man who had a heart attack on scene as hurt passengers directed rescuers to others who were more injured
Some people on the manifest are unaccounted for; hospitals treated more than 200 people and investigators are trying to determine what caused the train to derail
Train cars were completely overturned, on their side, ripped apart; more than 140 patients were taken to hospitals
Train 188 was traveling from Washington, D.C., to New York City on Tuesday night when it crashed
There was no shoulder on the road, and she hit the ambulance when pulling into a driveway
She woke up as the ambulance was going off the road, hit a light pole and crashed down an embankment
All on board died after the small passenger plane hit a traffic light pole near the highway ramp, sparking an intense fire
Ambulance continues to hospital despite damage and injury to the driver; SUV driver also injured in the collision
They immediately confessed to driving the ambulance around the block, and broke a sideview mirror when returning the vehicle
Tornadoes, flash floods injure at least 12, trap motorists and flip over vehicles on the interstate
Here’s a look at how the rules are changing, training for oil train crashes, and some of the more recent crashes around the country
A total of 10 tanker cars caught fire; no injuries were reported in the crash
Members of her department were called to the accident, unaware of who it involved; officials said the atmosphere in the department is still numb
The tougher standards to reduce fire and explosion won’t fully take effect until 2020
EMT Donavan Alden, 32, was killed in the March, 2014 head-on collision; less than a month before becoming a paramedic
Violent winds blew a train car off a track over the Huey Long Bridge in New Orleans as intense thunderstorms hit the area.
He stepped over a guardrail to avoid an oncoming car at the scene, plummeting to the water below
Two paramedics suffered minor injuries and the ambulance was destroyed after it was hit and pushed into a tree as the crew was pulling out of the station
Two trucks crashed in dense fog on Interstate 80, causing a chain reaction crash that also injured 16 people and caused a tanker truck to catch fire
Some responders were stung after spraying a layer of foam on the boxes, killing the bees for safety
The medic was sitting on his couch when the vehicle crashed through his home, he performed CPR on the unresponsive driver but the man was pronounced dead at a local hospital
Brady Fraley, 21, lost control of his pickup truck and truck a barbed wire fence, overturned several times and was ejected; a passenger suffered minor injuries
He was trapped inside the unit following a collision with a minivan, and complained of chest pains
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