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From EMSNetwork News Your best source for EMS News. we . search . so . you . don't . have . to http://www.emsnetwork.org/ Ambulance Crash Log Authorities have closed the westbound lanes of Interstate 70 in Ellicott City due to multiple crashes involving a tractor-trailer, an ambulance and a truck. State police said the crash involves three vehicles.
Investigators say it happened when an ambulance carrying a pregnant woman eastbound on I-70 crossed over into the westbound lane and smashed head-on into a tractor trailer. The two vehicles were then struck by a flatbed truck carrying cardboard boxes. The driver of the ambulance was killed. Three other persons in the emergency vehicle -- including the pregnant woman -- were taken to various hospitals. There's still no word on why the ambulance crossed the median strip. The crash scene has closed both directions of the interstate around 1:30 p.m. at the Old St. John's Lane overpass. The eastbound lanes of the interstate are closed so that the Medevac helicopters could land and transport patients to hospitals. All three of I-70's westbound lanes at U.S. Route 29 (Columbia Pike) -- where the collisions occurred -- are closed. The exit ramps from the northbound lanes of U.S. Route 29 to I-70 have also been closed.
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