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    Patient Dead, Medic Critical after Clark County, KY, Ambulance Wreck

    March 4, 2024
    A medic in the Lifeguard ambulance suffered life-threatening injuries after being ejected.
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    A patient in the ambulance was killed while an EMT suffered serious injuries.
    A patient in the ambulance was killed while an EMT suffered serious injuries.

    An ambulance crash in Clark County Sunday left a patient dead and a paramedic seriously injured.

    The crash occurred on Mountain Parkway near Winchester, the Appalachia Insider reported.

    The Lifeguard ambulance went off the road, struck a guardrail and flipped over. The medic who was ejected suffered life-threatening injuries.

    She was flown by helicopter to U.K. Chandler Hospital. 

    The EMT driving the ambulance suffered non-life-threatening-injuries.

    The ambulance was transporting a patient from Pikeville to the University of Kentucky Medical Center when the crash occurred.

     

     

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