ALBERTSON, NC – An ambulance driver failed to yield to oncoming traffic and collided with a big rig, sending the two drivers and two other passengers to a hospital last Wednesday.
This collision happened after 7:15 a.m. as the ambulance driver turned left in front of the big rig at North Carolina 111 and Sheep Pasture Road, WECT reported.
Duplin County officials said the ambulance driver was in the process of transporting a patient inside the ambulance to a hospital. The ambulance did not have any sirens or lights on during the collision. During the crash, the other EMS passenger, who was not wearing a seatbelt, was in the back of the EMS vehicle assisting the patient. Authorities confirmed the ambulance driver was cited for failing to yield.
After other first responders arrived, the back-seated EMS occupant and the EMS driver were flown via a medical helicopter to ECU Health Medical Center in Greenville for serious injuries.
Emergency crews took the patient to ECU Health Medical Center by EMS, and the tractor-trailer driver took the EMS truck to ECU Health Duplin Hospital for minor wounds.
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