AMBULANCES ON BOTH COASTS WERE THE VICTIMS of hit-and-run drivers Friday evening.
In Escondido, California, a teen-age girl collided with an ambulance at 5:30 pm Pacific and then drove away from the scene. But not before somebody got her license plate number. The North County Times reports:
A 1997 White Ford Explorer hit the ambulance and was last seen speeding southbound on Ash Street. The suspect was described as a teenage girl with the license plate “6JOR537.” Police went to the registered address of the vehicle, but were unable to locate the suspect, who is still at large.
The ambulance was not carrying a patient at the time. One of the FF/Paramedics on board suffered minor injury and the other did not.
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A Dorchester County, South Carolina, EMS ambulance was struck and flipped over after a drunk driver ran into it Friday night at 9 pm Eastern. The ambulance did not have a patient on board, but there were three EMT’s, none of whom were injured. The Charleston Post and Courier tells:
The ambulance was traveling west on U.S. Highway 78 in Ladson and was making a left turn into a gas station when a pickup truck struck the ambulance in the rear. The impact caused the ambulance to flip over.
The truck driver drove away without stopping and later jumped out of the truck, [a Highway Patrol officer] said. He was arrested about two hours later.
The driver, Jeff Sctzer, 28, of Ladson, is charged with driving under the influence and leaving the scene of an accident. Troopers took him to the Charleston County jail.
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