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
She was removed from the scene for hindering rescue efforts, and deputies are investigating if her claims that she was a trauma nurse are true
Responders were still on the scene Sunday morning; officials have not said what caused the crash
Nobody was injured when the animal crashed through a mother’s windshield as she was cruising along at 70 mph
The pedestrian, a person in an Accord and an occupant in the ambulance were taken to the hospital for treatmentA pedestrian, a person in a car and an occupant in the ambulance were taken to the hospital for treatment
An 18-year-old that rear ended the ambulance was charged with following too closely
The 19-year-old told police he fainted in the 10 seconds it would take to get through; four including him were injured and he faces criminal charges
The extrication took firefighters over two hours; the driver was taken to a hospital in an unknown condition
One car was under the tractor trailer and six others were piled up behind with people in various forms of injury, inside and outside of their vehicles
I jogged back to the trooper and asked if I could help. I identified myself as a medic based out of Phoenix. When he replied “Thank God” I knew I should have stayed in the car.
He didn’t even realize it was missing until he arrived and saw it hitched to the back of a pickup truck that rolled over
One woman was taken to a hospital in non-critical condition; no firefighters were injured
They look like they’re posing in front of a crashed truck, but the woman who snapped the photo said they were unaware she had taken it
Carolyn Edwards was badly hurt in a recent motorcycle accident
All that was left of some of the eight vehicles were charred hunks of nearly indiscernible metal after almost zero visibility led to a chain reaction of rear-end collisions
Medics also treated seven more who were wounded
Police say she was drunk and speeding when her car crossed the center line
A tractor-trailer carrying 460 hives flipped; the driver and passenger suffered non-life-threatening injuries
The bus overturned after a tractor-trailer spilled a load of steel pipes onto the highway
Cellphone video of the accident shows firefighters and paramedics tending to those injured
One person was airlifted to Flagstaff Medical Center with serious injuries after a tour bus, a minivan and a sedan collided
Police speculate that a medical condition caused Charles Glass, 65, to lose consciousness while behind the wheel
Manchester EMT Carolyn Edwards is in critical condition after a collision with a car
Her car flipped along a scenic highway; rescuers found her responsive and say she had a strong will to survive
Four people were seriously injured and 15 people were treated at the scene of the underground crash
He was trying to fly close to the ground to cut a ribbon with a knife attached to the plane; he skidded 50 feet upside-down on the runway in a fiery crash
The motorcyclists struck a vehicle that had been pushed into their lane; the injured rider is in the hospital with an unknown condition