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Ambulance Crashes Log |
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Tracking crashes and
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Ambulance and two private vehicles crash The accident occurred on Dec. 2, 2000, on Iowa Hwy 17 north of the Red Rock Lake bridge, north of the city of Knoxville. The Ambulance was operated by the Oskaloosa (city) branch station of American Ambulance of Des Moines, Iowa. Oskaloosa sits approx. 1 hour SE of Des Moines. |
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Life Star Air Ambulance from
Northwest Texas Healthcare System crashes The Life Star Air Ambulance from Northwest Texas Healthcare System in Amarillo crashed under unknown circumstances killing all four persons on board twenty miles north of Dalhart, Texas [near the Oklahoma State Border). The helicopter was carrying a 4-month-old girl with breathing problems from a remote Oklahoma town, Boise City, Okla., when it crashed shortly after taking off on the return journey in fog. Forced down by the weather it had picked up the patient from an ambulance and then took off in fog at 6:05 a.m. The crew was not heard from again but the wreck was found nearly five hours later less than a mile away. The wreckage, including ground impressions and aircraft components, encompassed an area measuring 272 feet by 75 feet. Both turbine engines and the main rotor system, including the transmission, remained attached to the airframe. Ambulance taking teen to
hospital crashes An ambulance carrying a teen-ager whose heart had stopped ran off a Clearfield County road early yesterday morning, hit a utility pole and rolled over twice -- likely after its 67-year-old driver suffered a heart attack, state police said. The 18-year-old man was pronounced dead at a nearby hospital. Centre County Coroner Scott Sayers said Amos Holes died from the heart stoppage and wasn't injured by the crash. "For all intents and purposes, he was dead at the time of the crash," said state police Sgt. Gregory Bacher. The veteran ambulance driver, Elwood Queen, was in critical condition last night in the cardiac critical care unit of Geisinger Medical Center in Danville, Montour County. Three crew members suffered bumps and cuts; one of them required 37 stitches. And the 4-month-old ambulance -- the lone ambulance serving Irvona, a tiny southern Clearfield County borough -- was deemed an $80,000 loss. "I saw the lights dim, I heard the sound, and I put my hands up in front of my face," said Bruce Braniff, 76, a crewman and supervisor for the Irvona Volunteer Ambulance Co. "We rolled over twice and ended up on the roof." The episode began about 80 minutes earlier, when the ambulance was called to a house in LaJose, where Holes' parents found him unconscious in his locked bedroom. He was in cardiac arrest, Braniff said. Sayers said he doesn't know yet what stopped his heart. Braniff, fellow emergency medical technician Terry Whetstone, 30, and paramedic Christopher Gardner, 38, started cardiopulmonary resuscitation and began the 18-mile trip to Philipsburg Area Hospital, continuing CPR as they drove. But two-thirds of the way there, the ambulance crossed the empty two-lane road and rolled over. "There was no warning," Braniff said. "The ambulance crew was still administering CPR after the wreck," Sayers said. Ambulances took the occupants on to the Philipsburg hospital. Queen was flown by medical helicopter to Danville. According to Braniff, the demolished ambulance will be covered by insurance. In the meantime, help will come from a neighboring volunteer force, eight winding miles up Route 53. "We want to replace it as soon as we can," he said. Ambulance crash: Man dies, 6
injured AN AMBULANCE rushing a 63-year-old man to hospital collided with an SBS bus early yesterday morning and flipped over, killing him and injuring six others, five of them seriously. Retired pig farmer Toh Khai Poon died after suffering abdominal injuries in the collision in North Bouna Vista Road. The dead man is Mr Toh Khai Poon, a retired pig farmer, who died in hospital at about 9 am after suffering abdominal injuries in the collision in North Buona Vista Road. His daughter-in-law, Madam Tan Joo See, 37, who had been with him, was thrown from the ambulance and suffered serious head and abdominal injuries. Her husband, Mr Toh Chee Kiong, 39, following in a car behind, was horrified to see his wife lying on the road, her head covered in blood. Madam Tan, who has two children, is in critical condition at the National University Hospital. The four ambulance crew and the bus driver were also injured in the crash which crushed the front of the bus. In serious but stable condition with head injuries are the 22-year-old ambulance driver and the 19-year-old paramedic. A trainee paramedic, a 25-year-old woman, has abdominal injuries. The bus driver fractured his left leg and has also been warded. An 18-year-old ambulance attendant was slightly hurt. The ambulance was coming off the Ayer Rajah Expressway at the Buona Vista Flyover when it collided with an off-service SBS bus. Madam Tan has lost more than 30 litres of blood so far. She needs another operation on Wednesday and requires A+ blood platelets. He family are appealing for donors. Anyone wishing to donate their blood can go to the National University Hospital. Ironically, Mr Toh had not been seriously ill. His six children, who all work in the family's clothing business, are in shock. The eldest, Mr Toh Bey Bee, 43, said in Mandarin: 'We called the ambulance because my father fainted. He came to before it arrived, but we thought it would be better to send him to hospital anyway as he was having a little difficulty breathing.' 'We never imagined that something like this could happen,' he said. When his father was admitted to hospital, he did not seem to be hurt. But his condition worsened and he died. Said Mr Toh Bey Bee: 'We never had a chance to say goodbye.' The dead man's mother, Madam Ong Chap, 87, sat dazed at their home in Pending Road. 'I've lost my oldest son. I don't want to lose my grand-daughter-in-law. For both of them to go this way would be too much to bear.'
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Ambulance runs into
runner Zach was traveling at about 40 mph toward the finish line of the Criterium of Independence bike race on July 4. At the same time, an ambulance drove into his path while attempting to make a U-turn. Zach collided with the ambulance and was killed. The ambulance driver, who had been with the department 20 years, immediately resigned. The Milwaukee County district attorney's office did not file charges against him. Berousek said he has not spoken with the ambulance driver since the accident, but understands that he misjudged the speed of the bicyclists and thought he could get out of their way in time. "He was unfamiliar with bicyclists and the speed with which they were approaching," the chief said. The Zachs' son, 27-year-old Carl Zach of Waukesha, was killed in the collision. Zach was leading the Criterium of Independence bike race on July 4, 2000, sprinting about 40 mph toward the finish line, when he slammed into a North Shore Fire Department ambulance that had made a U-turn into the race path. The Milwaukee County district attorney's office decided not to file charges against the ambulance driver, a 20-year firefighter who resigned shortly after the accident. According to the district attorney's investigation, he had seen the bikes approaching but didn't realize how fast they were traveling and thought he could complete the U-turn safely. Zach was believed to have had his head down and did not see the ambulance before the collision. The Village of Fox Point and the North Shore Fire Department, Wisconsin have settled a lawsuit by agreeing to pay a state-maximum $250,000 to the parents of a bicyclist who was killed after colliding with an ambulance during a race. Crash doubles trouble; Worker
falls through roof, then ambulance wrecks on way to hospital An ambulance carrying a Uniontown man who fell through the roof of a Derry Township maintenance garage Thursday was involved in an accident on its way to the hospital. Frank May, 54, was listed in fair condition at UPMC Presbyterian in Oakland last night after he was flown there by medical helicopter from Latrobe Area Hospital. According to state police, the Mutual Aid Ambulance Service ambulance that was taking May to Latrobe Area Hospital after his fall collided with a car at 11:30 a.m. at the intersection of state routes 981 and 1020 in Derry Township, near Latrobe. Ambulance driver Gregory Onega of Latrobe was not injured. A Mutual Aid medic riding in the back with May sustained minor injuries and was treated at Latrobe Area Hospital and released. The driver of the car, Karen McKinney of Blairsville, also was treated at the hospital for minor injuries. No information was available about a woman who Latrobe and Derry Township firefighters said was riding with McKinney. No passengers were listed for either vehicle on a state police report. May, who works for Lloyd Roofing of Uniontown, fell about 25 feet onto the concrete floor of the Derry Township maintenance garage along State Route 982 after one end of a 6-foot-long piece of tin roofing he was walking on gave way at about 10:40 a.m. May's foreman, Walt Lehman of Uniontown, said May and the others on the work crew had been contracted by the township to replace the roof and were tearing out a section of the old roof when May fell. Lehman said he and the other co-workers were all about 10 feet from May, and there was no time to grab for him. "It just gave way," Lehman said. "It just happened so fast." Lehman said there were clearly visible rusted-out holes in the part of the roof they were tearing out, but there also were "bad places" that they couldn't see. Lehman and other members of the crew said May apparently broke his right leg and injured his head in the fall. He was bleeding from the nose and ear, but was still moving and talking as Onega and the Mutual Aid medic prepared to take him to the hospital. No charges have been filed against either driver in connection with the accident. Kristi Snyder of Derry Borough, who was driving behind the ambulance as it headed west on SR 1020 toward the intersection, said Onega had the ambulance's lights and sirens operating. "I can't say who was coming to the intersection and who was already there, but (McKinney) had to have heard him," Snyder said. State police said Onega was attempting to go through a red light at the intersection when the ambulance collided with McKinney's car, which was headed south on Route 981. Dorothy Rubino of Latrobe said she was looking at potted flowers at Murphy's Market produce stand at routes 981 and 1020 when she heard and saw Onega approach the intersection. "I heard him coming up the road, and then I heard the collision," Rubino said. "I didn't see the collision. I saw him coming up the road and I thought `Boy, he must have someone with him in the back.'" Greece: Nurse killed in
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