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
People in the area ran outside to see a roaring fire and thick plumes of smoke; four family members died on the flight
Henry Walter Atkins III suffered from a medical condition that may have caused him to lose control of his car; he was pronounced dead after his car ran into a curb and overturned
Cars were carrying hazardous materials including fuel oil and methanol and there were reports of fuel oil leaking
A cop and a nurse stopped to provide medic attention before responders arrived
A dispatcher and medic coached her boyfriend through it after an ambulance crashed on the icy roads and couldn’t reach herk
Two medics inside the ambulance were hospitalized; a patient inside the ambulance was not injured from the crash
More than 1,385 wrecks were reported statewide but abandoned cars and multiple emergencies blocked the road; it took two hours for an ambulance to reach an ER less than 10 miles away
Two others on board also died; witnesses say his helicopter snagged a power line during a routine mission for a utility company
The nurse witnessed the wreck and removed the boy as the pickup began to catch fire
A city-issued report now contradicts the coroner’s conclusion that the teen survived the crash and was killed by fire trucks
At least six people died in traffic accidents as a winter storm walloped southern states
Benjamin Ward Samples, 38, a former EMT involved in a fatal crash in 2011, is to serve a one-year suspended sentenced on a negligent homicide charge
Medic Mike Stevens became distraught when he realized that two of the victims were his own wife and 5-year-old daughter
Brian Nagel, 30, will need speech and physical therapy, and Tim Daly, 43, left the hospital with both legs in casts
Responders heard people yell “look out!” as two vehicles slid into a crash scene, not realizing the road was closed
She was hospitalized in fair condition after her vehicle left the road and rolled numerous times before landing on its roof
Ind. Fire Chief Mick Pawlik said he was shocked as he looked down the endless stretch of mangled semis and crumpled cars on I 94
A passenger “went berserk” and attacked the bus driver, causing the bus to swerve violently and go off the highway before other passengers subdued him
Photos show at least a dozen tractor-trailers jammed together, and there may be more fatalities
Neighbors say the light slowed people down, and are even angrier now that speed has been determined a factor in a crash that killed off-duty EMT Michael Burke
He will be sentenced to a year in jail and five years probation after hitting a pedestrian with a pickup truck with a snowplow blade attached
A woman who ran a stop sign and caused an ambulance rollover that killed a patient will be charged with motor-vehicle homicide
Surveillance footage clearly shows a Mercedes-Benz running a stop sign and clipping an ambulance, causing it to flip over in a crash that killed a 58-year-old patient and injured a medic
The medic and driver of a sedan that ran a red light were hospitalized; the ambulance was transporting a patient from her dialysis appointment
An 11-year-old girl was also flung from the vehicle and died; their five children were hospitalized after the collision on the way to a party at a rollerskating rink
An 11-year-old girl was thrown from a vehicle, and many of the children injured were not wearing seatbelts