IN MUNCIE, INDIANA, A DELAWARE COUNTY EMS ambulance collided with a car after driving the wrong way on a one-way street for two blocks.
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The patient was transferred to another ambulance
and continued on to the hospital. The driver of the other
car was also transported for minor injuries.
(Muncie Star Press/Maxwell photo)
The ambulance was transporting a woman to the hospital for chest pains when the accident happened. When the ambulance responded to her house they had overshot the cross street and ended up at the wrong end of the block, so they had to enter the street facing the wrong way to begin with.
When they left with the patient, their emergency lights were on, but they were not sounding the siren. When they got to the intersection, instead of getting off the street, they continued on still without the siren. At the next intersection there was a stop sign giving the cross street the right-of-way but the stop sign was faced toward the regular traffic flow and not visible to the ambulance driver. They then collided with another car in the intersection.
A witness said that the ambulance blew both stop signs. Indiana law does not require the siren to be in operation and the EMS supervisor stated that ”…in order to protect a patient’s privacy” it’s common practice not to arrive at or leave a patient’s home with sirens blaring.
The Muncie Star Press has the full REPORT.
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