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
Another person was also injured when the two-pilot spaceship crashed during a Virgin Galactic test flight
Four people are also are unaccounted for after the small plane lost power
A truck driver who believed he had enough time to clear the tracks pulled into the train’s path
The 77-year-old died when the ambulance collided with a dump truck that was stopped in traffic during thick fog
Audio recordings indicate 911 operators struggled to learn exactly where the crash occurred because passengers didn’t know where they were
Three men in the helicopter died, but two people in the plane survived after deploying a parachute to slow the aircraft’s descent before it hit trees
A flight nurse and patient were also killed in the fiery crash
Firefighters inserted two air bags under the car and inflated them to lift the vehicle off the man and pull him out
With lights and siren on, the ambulance collided with the bus and flipped
We asked readers to share some of the weirdest incidents they’ve witnessed or responded to, and the results are in
He was the passenger in a car that failed to yield to traffic and pulled out in front of the vehicles
Officials say he crossed the center line and crashed into the tanker, which then hit two other cars
Six other firefighters were evaluated and released with non-life threatening injuries
Five were taken to an area hospital with non-life-threatening injuries
Capt. Thomas R. Weiss, a 22-year fire service veteran, had been flying planes for more than 34 years
Rescuers followed a trail of folded clothes and personal items to the costal cliff where the man lay injured on the rocks below
The patient on board died; the flight nurse and a paramedic were still in critical condition as of Monday afternoon
Drivers of police cars, fire trucks and ambulances caused at least 180 traffic collisions last year, up from 165 collisions in 2012
The flight nurse and paramedic are in critical condition; the patient on board died
Amid response time struggles, he said his wife felt “very comfortable” with the arrival of an ambulance in 12 minutes, two minutes over the 10-minute goal
The responding EMS team’s director stresses the importance of “debriefing” after responding to tragic incidents
Officials are looking into whether or not firefighters got into a scuffle before people injured in a rollover were treated
“Not thinking about it helps me keep working forward and try to focus on where I want to be and not what’s happened in the past”
He was arrested for not moving his vehicle as police cleared a landing for a medical helicopter to airlift a victim after a serious car crash
A Mass. EMT was hospitalized for injuries and the crash is under investigation
