ambulances firegeezer on 15 Oct 2008 09:30 am
Ambulance Collision Has Fatality
A MAMARONECK, NEW YORK, AMBULANCE HAD JUST left its station on an emergency response Tuesday night when a car pulled out of a parking lot into its path. The resulting collision killed the 90-yr.-old man who was driving the auto.
Journal News photo
Donato Protano was leaving an Italian social lodge that he visited regularly at 8:50 pm when he drove out of the lodge’s parking lot and collided with the ambulance that had four EMS members on board.
The incident occurred next door to a fire station and the FF’s were on the scene immediately. The impact had driven Protano over onto the passenger seat of his car and he was extricated quickly out that side. While CPR was immediately begun, they had no success resuscitating him.
A lodge spokesman said that Protano normally had someone drive him at nighttime, but this time he didn’t.
There was no report on any injuries, if any, to the EMT’s.
The Journal News has the STORY.
on 15 Oct 2008 at 10:52 am 1.Mr618 said …
Something here doesn’t sound quite right. The guy “normally had someone drive him home”? At ten minutes before 9:00? Either the driver had night blindness and knew it, or he got schnockered every night.
Either way, he had no business being on the road by himself after dark.
My father, who is 82, is probably going to lose his license on the next go-round, what with his dimished night vision and depth perception. Losing a license isn’t easy or fun, but sometimes, personal privileges have to yield to the common good.