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The vehicle crashes topic contains news about single or multiple car crashes, ambulance crashes as well as vehicular risks and challenges to EMS providers.

Police arrested a driver in the death of ASAP EMS EMT Mary “Katie” Pipkin
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
A shopper described the scene as chaotic when an SUV crashed into the Canton Township store’s main entrance
A Louisville firefighter was lowered to rescue the driver as the cab of her rig hung off the bridge after a crash
The Long Island bus driver was charged with harassment, resisting arrest and child endangerment
Hailey Martineau faced felony charges in the death of Golden Cross Ambulance Service Paramedic Ian Pierce
Nine months after Kansas City firefighter/medic Andy Zuniga was injured, the officer involved in had another pursuit crash
The driver was killed and five people injured when a car crashed into the ED at St. David’s North Austin Medical Center
Video shows the moment a car crashed into St. David’s North Austin Medical Center ED in Austin
Yanaisa Pulido, an EMT with Miami Dade Ambulance, had stopped to help victims when a vehicle struck her
Attorney Amy Witherite, an expert in trucking safety, warns that these 80,000-pound vehicles may pose a special danger to first responders
Electric vehicles tore through guardrails and hardly slowed after hitting concrete barriers
A 16-year-old driver escaped seriosu injury after his vehicle crashed into a High Point house
A pilot was killed and a driver injured when a plane crashed onto a busy intersection in Concord
One car from the train derailed during the collision near Keenesburg
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Citizens Hose EMT Kelly Jackson plans to use a fundraiser for her recovery to support a local foundation
Four people were injured in the crash on I-75 in Dayton
Authorities stated 23 vehicles were involved in the initial chain-reaction crash on the Chesapeake Bay Bridge
One of the AMR paramedics was critically injured in the crash with a wrong-way driver on I-10
Tucson Police Department stated a vehicle traveling the wrong way collided with an AMR ambulance
First responders in Maury County used log chains, two straps to keep the pickup from falling into the river
Two of the four patients were pinned inside the car after they tried to go around a railroad crossing in Harvey
Intense video shows the tractor-trailer coming to a rest mere inches from the wall of the Shenandoah Community Ambulance headquarters, only leaving marks from the hinges of the trailer doors
Paramedics faced a complex rescue on a popular trail near Cajon Pass
Victims had left their vehicles after an earlier crash on I-81 in Lackawanna County
One simple trick we can take from our fire service friends to stabilize a vehicle
Help keep you, your crew and your patient safe at motor vehicle collision scenes
A speeding SUV went off the road and became stuck, off the ground, between trees in the Longmeadow crash
A Niles man lost control of his snowmobile causing it to roll over on him
Joseph Zadroga, father of NYPD Detective James Zadroga who died of a respiratory ailment related to work at Ground Zero, was struck by an SUV
Matthew Reum was trapped for six days in his truck, subsisting on rainwater