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.
Firefighter Megan Warfield leapt into action to help a victim in an overturned car after being involved in a multi-vehicle crash – and gave birth 23 hours later
This year’s strangest tales involved a medic who won a lottery, providers treating family members, a heroic dispatcher, unfriendly animals and unique car crashes
The ERSI has already tracked 34 first responder roadway-incident deaths in 2022 and an average of two struck-by incidents daily
The Air Evac Lifeteam Bell 206 helicopter crashed while en route to pick up a patient, killing all three members aboard
A public showcase featuring controlled locomotive collisions promotes railroad safety
A pickup truck hauling a trailer crossed the median and collided with a mobile crane on I-83 in Baltimore County
The Custer County EMS medic was known as “a top-notch paramedic and an even better human being”
The driver lost control on an embankment and crashed into a Los Angeles County house
The collapsing radio tower, east of the city’s downtown area, did not fall on any structures
Tips for the unique challenges of accessing and extricating patients from recreational trails
A 3-year-old girl who had experienced cardiac arrest later died after a collision between a Syracuse ambulance and a SUV
23 people were treated for minor injuries after their commuter train struck a piece of a tree on the tracks in Mansfield Township
The Knox County Sheriff’s Office said there was a crash involving a vehicle that transports miners underground
One balloon hit power lines and caught fire while another crashed into a radio tower
One of the three nurses is in critical condition after a vehicle dropping off a shooting victim struck them and fled the scene
The lawsuit alleges that the AMR Waterbury EMT failed to yield the right-of-way and made an unsafe turn, resulting in a collision with the other vehicle
A young child was able to flag down a driver to call 911 for the crash in Kelso
Three members of Air Evac Lifeteam 133 were en route to pick up a patient when their helicopter went down in Owenton
Two Vallejo firefighter/paramedics were injured while rescuing the patient from a burning vehicle
Orange County Fire Authority Chief Brian Fennessy said six of the injured firefighters were transported to local trauma centers
At least 17 patients were transported by EMS to hospitals after a wagon carrying children and adults overturned near Chippewa Falls
The intersection of Robert Smalls Parkway and Savannah Highway in Beaufort County is the site of numerous motor vehicle collisions
First responders in Apache Junction transported 10 patients to hospitals
First responders in Saginaw arrived on the scene to find the truck and house on fire and the driver lying on the roof
The driver of a car failed to yield to the right of way and crashed into the ambulance, causing it to flip onto its roof
One person died and two others were injured in the Linn County crash
The 911 caller told the operator that the driver was lying on the ground outside the Gwinnett County house
First responders from several departments and agencies worked the scene in Old Saybrook
Authorities charged the driver with criminal vehicular homicide after striking Methodist Hospital employees outside a St. Louis Park restaurant
36 patients were transported to hospitals after a bus overturned on Interstate 20 near Bovina
Jefferson County Rescue Squad Assistant Chief Jeremy Sutton was killed when a tractor-trailer struck the ambulance
A van carrying 14 people rolled over several times after it went off the highway in Alvord
Spokane Valley firefighters faced a driver “in crisis” who had crashed their car into a JCPenny store
