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Ambulance
Kills Three Kids in N.Y.
10.18.98
An ambulance driver was charged with manslaughter Thursday
after allegedly speeding through a red light on a non-emergency call and plowing
into a car, killing two little boys and their sister.
The crash took place shortly before midnight Wednesday in Brooklyn. The
ambulance driver, Annie Lamberson, 34, was arrested because the privately run
ambulance ran a light, was going at an excessive speed and wasn't responding to
a medical emergency,'' Detective Thomas McGrath said. Police said that the
ambulance was going 50 to 70 mph in a 30 mph zone and that its flashing lights
and siren were on when it ran the light.
A Transcare Ambulance Service official, Ron O'Grady, refused to comment on the
charges.
The dead were two boys and a girl, ages 2, 5 and 7. The youngsters' mother,
Angela Igwe, 32, was in stable condition, and her 9-year-old daughter, Ibornka
Morak, was critically hurt. No one in the family's car was wearing a seatbelt or
was in a child car seat, police said.
Lamberson was not seriously hurt. Another paramedic in the ambulance was
hospitalized in stable condition. National
EMS Memorial Service
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