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syndicate.article_date[ syndicate.index ] = 'Mar 2, 2007';
syndicate.article_summary[ syndicate.index ] = 'The patient, ambulance driver and attending paramedic were injured ';
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syndicate.article_title[ syndicate.index ] = 'Man Charged With Manslaughter After Crashing Into Ambulance - Florida';
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syndicate.article_date[ syndicate.index ] = 'Feb 25, 2007';
syndicate.article_summary[ syndicate.index ] = 'Police upgraded the charge after autopsy reports showed the crash killed the patient in the ambulance, Alice "Dee" Ferriell, 77.';
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syndicate.article_title[ syndicate.index ] = 'Crash kills patient in ambulance - Florida';
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syndicate.article_date[ syndicate.index ] = 'Feb 24, 2007';
syndicate.article_summary[ syndicate.index ] = 'A 77-year-old woman was killed Friday when a Lady Lake man suspected of driving drunk slammed into the ambulance she was riding, police said. ';
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syndicate.article_title[ syndicate.index ] = 'Drunken driver hits ambulance at Stafford hospital - New Jersey';
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syndicate.article_summary[ syndicate.index ] = 'An alleged drunken driver struck an ambulance that had recently dropped off a patient';
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syndicate.article_title[ syndicate.index ] = 'Ambulance, minivan collide - Billings, Montana';
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syndicate.article_date[ syndicate.index ] = 'Feb 18, 2007';
syndicate.article_summary[ syndicate.index ] = 'The ambulance hit the driver\'s side of the minivan.';
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syndicate.article_title[ syndicate.index ] = 'Preliminary report on Mercy Flight crash offers few answers - Great Falls, Montana';
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syndicate.article_summary[ syndicate.index ] = 'Great Falls residents wonder what went wrong to cause the plane to plow into rugged terrain a few miles short of its destination';
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syndicate.article_title[ syndicate.index ] = 'EMT Sauder dies in crash - Leola, Pennsylvania';
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syndicate.article_summary[ syndicate.index ] = 'Members of the victim\'s ambulance crew came upon the crash within minutes, police said, and tried to help David Sauder,who was an EMT for Leola Ambulance and Bareville Fire Company for 13 years. ';
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syndicate.article_title[ syndicate.index ] = 'Answers Stemming From Ambulance Crash Could Take a While - Wisconsin';
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syndicate.article_summary[ syndicate.index ] = 'It could be a month before a cause is known involving an ambulance crashing into the Stevens Point Fire Department ';
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syndicate.article_title[ syndicate.index ] = 'Teen hurt as car, ambulance collide - Bremerton, Washintgon';
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syndicate.article_title[ syndicate.index ] = 'Ambulance Crashes into Stevens Point Fire Station - Wisconsin';
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syndicate.article_summary[ syndicate.index ] = 'Stevens Point\'s Fire Chief says a mechanical failure appears to be responsible for an ambulance crashing into a fire station. 
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syndicate.article_title[ syndicate.index ] = 'Ambulance crash kills Santa Ana patient - California';
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syndicate.article_date[ syndicate.index ] = 'Feb 9, 2007';
syndicate.article_summary[ syndicate.index ] = 'An 87-year-old Santa Ana man died Thursday after the ambulance in which he was \nbeing transported collided with a car in Fountain Valley.';
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syndicate.article_title[ syndicate.index ] = 'Car hits ambulance carrying patient - Chicago, Illinois';
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syndicate.article_summary[ syndicate.index ] = 'An ambulance carrying a patient was hit by a car that ran through a red light in North Riverside this morning, leaving the patient and the driver of the car injured. ';
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syndicate.article_title[ syndicate.index ] = 'Tragedy weighs heavily on many - Montana';
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syndicate.article_summary[ syndicate.index ] = 'Paramedic Erickson and his wife Rachelle were coming up on their second wedding anniversary. They were busy with their jobs, a new house and a 7-month-old son';
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syndicate.article_title[ syndicate.index ] = 'Friends, co-workers mourn flight crew - Montana';
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syndicate.article_summary[ syndicate.index ] = 'As word spread of Tuesday night’s crash of a Benefis Healthcare Mercy Flight \nplane, tributes were being paid to the three crew members who died.';
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syndicate.article_title[ syndicate.index ] = 'Victims of Mercy Flight crash identified - Montana';
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syndicate.article_summary[ syndicate.index ] = 'Benefis Healthcare has released the names of the Mercy Flight crew members who \ndied in Tuesday night’s crash en route to Bozeman to pick up a patient.';
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syndicate.article_title[ syndicate.index ] = '3 Dead in Medical Plane Crash - Bozeman, Montana';
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syndicate.article_title[ syndicate.index ] = 'Lifeline Ambulance crash kills patient - Cheltenham, Pennsylvania';
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syndicate.article_summary[ syndicate.index ] = 'According to the Cheltenham Highway Safety Unit, it is not certain which vehicle ran the traffic light. ';
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syndicate.article_title[ syndicate.index ] = 'Marlborough ambulance crash sends one to hospital - Massachusetts';
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syndicate.article_summary[ syndicate.index ] = 'An ambulance en route to a medical emergency crashed into a car on Elm Street near Frye Street';
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