December Ambulance Crash Log

[crotchitymedic1986]

Here is a link to a site that maintains an ambulance crash log. December's accidents will pop-up with this link, and you can search all previous months. If I get bored today, I might count up all of 2008's crashes to get an injury and death count. Of course, those crashes that are listed are voluntarily emailed to the site, it is not an all-inclusive list:

http://www.emsnetwork.org/artman2/publish/...e-crashes.shtml

[JPINFV]

I think you're missing an option that says "No."

[reaper]

Yeah, I noticed that!

Guess he thinks that none of us can drive?

[ERDoc]

Nope, I was not involved in any ambulance crashes this month. :wink:

[crotchitymedic1986]

my bad, it has been corrected.

[WolfmanHarris]

The original question was like "have you stopped crashing your Ambulance?"

[firedoc5]

The only "crash" in an ambulance when I was driving was behind the ambulance building. Right next to the ambulance building was a body shop that would occasionally have several cars parked just anywhere. Some yahoo parked in a No Parking Zone in the alley. When I went to back up I ran the steel step bumper down the side of his car about 1/3 of the way. Silly me. Even though it was a No Parking Zone I still should have looked. Another example of assuming.

Come to think of it, I was never in a major accident whether I was driving or not. We had one guy that could not drive on ice. He put us up against a guard rail early one morning. Luckily it was at low speed. Later that same day he took out a street sign. From then on I drove.

[spenac]

This site has been posted multiple times. It is not a complete log by any means. Sadly ambulance crashes happen way to often. Thankfully I have never wrecked.

[crotchitymedic1986]

As spenac noted, this is not a "complete log", but of those logged, here are the total numbers for just December 2008 (which isnt over yet):

Ambulance crashes: 23

Ambulance personnel injured: 24

Ambulance pers. deaths: 0

Patient Injuries: 7

Patient Deaths: 1

Other vehicle injured: 11

Other vehicle deaths: 5

[reaper]

And the point of all of this is?

We could look at every profession and find the same.

How many:

LEO crashes

Bus driver crashes

Trucking crashes

FD crashes

The list could go on and on.

If you drive in any profession there will be crashes. IT happens! :roll: