Ga. Ambulance Crash Kills Two EMTs and One Patient [VIDEO]
An ambulance crashed in Georgia, resulting in the death of two EMTs and one patient.
The incident occurred while the ambulance was traveling on state Highway 32 at around 5 a.m. on Thursday morning, according to the Inquisitr. After a semi truck jack-knifed in front of the emergency vehicle, the ambulance collided with it.
Out of Coffee County, the ambulance was traveling eastbound near Ocilla. The semi truck, which was traveling west bound, jack-knifed across the center line after the car in front of it attempted to exit the highway, according to The Associated Press.
Two EMTs, 44-year-old Teresa Ann Davis and 56-year-old Randall Whiddon, were both seated in the front when the accident occurred and were both killed in the crash, according to Fox. The patient, 65-year-old Charles Arvin Smith, was also killed. There are reports that Smith was thrown from the ambulance.
"It's a small community, a tight-knit community at the hospital, especially in the EMT department," said George Heck, CEO of Coffee Regional Medical Center, according to The Associated Press. "They're obviously taken aback by such a tragedy."
The ambulance was not traveling to Coffee Regional Medical Center at the time of the crash, but was instead heading to another, unnamed local hospital.
