Two EMT's Airlifted Out
A FIRST MED AMBULANCE COLLIDED WITH a delivery truck near Kinston, North Carolina, Wednesday evening. Both vehicles then went off the road with the ambulance taking out an electric pole and ending upside down.
Kinston Free Press
The two ambulance attendants were both airlifted by EastCare to a hospital in Pitt County. The driver of the delivery truck had minor injuries and was not transported. There was no patient in the ambulance.
State Police say that the two vehicles were traveling north in adjoining lanes when the ambulance made a lane change in front of the truck, but misjudged his move and clipped the truck, triggering the accident. The wreck cause a power outage to 3,000 customers for about five hours.
Kinston Free Press
The driver of the ambulance Joseph Heck, 34, and the attendant Aimee McKinney, 19, had to be extricated from the wreckage. Their conditons have not been released.
Police say that charges are pending against the ambulance driver.
The Kinston Free Press has the full STORY HERE.
WITN-TV has a video REPORT.
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