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
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
Four people suffered serious injuries and were hospitalized; 15 others were treated at the scene
A gray pickup truck ran a red light and slammed into the ambulance at 4 a.m., then broke down after it sped away
Three were taken to the hospital after the van slammed into the back of a car, and was then hit by a pickup truck
She stopped at the wreck and was able to get him breathing when ambulances arrived
He stopped to help after witnessing a crash, and was able to assist with the patient’s major leg trauma before ambulances arrived
The small planes collided after an air show; one landed safely while the other crashed into the San Francisco Bay and hasn’t been found
Witness: ‘It looked like the guy put his foot on the gas pedal instead of the brake’