A 60-YR.-OLD ORLANDO, FLORIDA, WOMAN is in critical condition after her car collided with an ambulance Friday morning.
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The woman was driving through an intersection with the green light when a Health Central hospital ambulance responding with lights and siren on ran into the side of the car. Two of the three ambulance personnel suffered minor injuries.
The Orlando Sentinal has the STORY.
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A Chicago Fire Dept. ambulance collided with a car at an intersection Friday morning. Ambulance 53 was running emergency with a patient on board when the crash took place. The patient was did not suffer any injuries from the wreck and was successfully transported to the ER.
Early reports did not say what led to the collision. Channel 2 has the brief STORY.
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A pilot for an air ambulance service was arrested Thursday in Lexington, Kentucky, on alcohol-related charges just before he was to fly on a trip with a paralyzed man and his wife.
The patient’s wife was about to take her husband to a spinal-cord treatment center in St. Louis when she noticed that the pilot, Stephen Ray Lynn, 51, of Mena, Arkansas smelled of alcohol. She also noticed that the air ambulance had no medical supplies on board and that a woman who she thought was a nurse was sitting nervously, smoking a cigarette inside the plane. The “nurse” turned out to be Lynn’s girlfriend.
The Lexington Herald-Leader has this STORY.
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The PTI News service in India is reporting:
A grief-stricken couple taking their son’s body for performing last rites were among four killed when the ambulance they were travelling in fell into a river at Kuttiadi near here on Saturday.
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The couple, hailing from Kallachi adjacent to Kuttiadi, were bringing the body of Vijesh, who passed away in Bangalore on Thursday, for cremation when the mishap occurred, police said. The injured had been rushed to the Medical College hospital.
Locals, who first rushed to the spot, broke the front portion of the vehicle and pulled out the occupants. However, two of them had died by then, police said.
Fire force and police personnel later recovered another body from under the ambulance while one more person died at the hospital, they said.
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Near Liverpool, England, an ambulance responding to an emergency call entered into a roundabout (traffic circle) and lost control, rolling over onto its side. The three North West Amb. Service medics in the vehicle were shaken up, but not injured. The Liverpool Echo has the REPORT.
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The Dells-Delton Emergency Medical Service in Wisconsin is having to write off and throw away a new ambulance that they purchased this past Fall after it had its fourth collision in the past eight months. And while sitting in the lot after the 4th crash, rainwater leaked through a smashed light fixture causing a short and started a fire in the box.
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The digits of the vehicle #805 add up to 13.
The Wisconsin Dells Events has the rest of the STORY.
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