AN AMERICAN MEDICAL RESPONSE (AMR) AMBULANCE was involved in a collision in Lompoc, California, Saturday that cause the ambulance to roll over.
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The AMR ambulance had a patient on board who was being transported on a non-emergency transfer when the wreck occurred. The Lompoc Record reports:
(Police) said that Purgason, who was southbound on Highway 1 in the Chevrolet Silverado truck, traveling about the speed limit, waved at a driver next to him that he recognized and the truck drifted off the left side of the road into the center median.
Purgason overcorrected the steering wheel, and the truck veered onto northbound Highway 1 and struck the northbound ambulance, Schmidt said.
The collision caused the ambulance to roll over and land on its roof off the side of the highway, coming to rest about 50 feet down an embankment, he said. The truck stopped on its wheels in the northbound lanes.
The 53-yr.-old driver of the pickup was airlifted to the hospital where he was admitted in stable condition. His passenger was uninjured. The driver and the patient from the ambulance were both treated and released from the hospital.
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