A FORT PIERCE, FLORIDA, EMT WAS REQUIRED to have his left leg amputated below the knee Tuesday night following a violent crash.
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Fort Pierce police spokeswoman Audria Moore issued a statement:
An ambulance, driven by St. Lucie County Firefighter William Hines, was at the intersection of Virginia Avenue and 25th Street to make a left turn onto 25th Street, when a Nissan SUV, driven by Germaine Lindor, 63, of the 2600 block of NW Hatches Harbor Road, Port St. Lucie, entered the intersection and collided with the passenger side of the ambulance.
The impact tipped the ambulance over on its driver side and caused it to spin around and skid on its side for about 50 feet. The SUV continued traveling north on 25th Street until it came to a stop.
The driver of the SUV, Lindor was killed immediately on impact. The driver of the ambulance was treated at the hospital and released. The EMT Chris Doyle, who was in the passenger seat took the brunt of the impact and had to be extricated from the wreckage. His left leg was so badly mangled that the surgeons at the hospital had to amputate it below the knee.
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One eyewitness to the crash told the Fort Pierce Tribune: “This is a 45 (mph zone) and it was doing twice that, no problem at all. Ninety, easy,” Kelly said. “I saw her 50 feet away from the intersection. I couldn’t believe that she wasn’t slowing down. … Hit that hump, it seemed like her truck left the ground and jumped up in the air and hit the ambulance.”
A police investigator said that they have not yet determined the speed of the SUV, but that the debris field and impact results indicate that it was “substantial.”
WPBF-TV filed this video report from the accident scene:
WPEC-TV has more HERE.
