Ambulance Breaks Down After Scooter Crash; Man Dies

[MMiz]

Ambulance Breaks Down After Scooter Crash; Man Dies

AKRON, Ohio -- A man died over the weekend in Akron after a car hit his scooter and then the ambulance responding to the emergency broke down.

The ambulance arrived at Archwood Avenue within a few minutes after the crash.

The victim, 26-year-old Terrance Owens, was tended and placed inside the ambulance. But then the ambulance stalled.

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[MMiz]

It looks as though a firefighter trying to drive the rig killed the engine when he didn't disable the anti-theft key device, and they couldn't get it started. They got it started before another unit arrived, and transported.

 

[VentMedic]

I don't see that much of a problem with the ambulance not starting in this situation as "stuff does happen". The delay was not that much with still a decent arrival to hospital time. It sounds like the paramedics probably wouldn't have been ready to move anyway. Overall, this would be a good call to review for utilization of resources.

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Ohio Officials Say Ambulance Didn't Stall During Fatal Call


ED MEYER
The Akron Beacon Journal, Ohio

An Akron Fire Department emergency vehicle arrived at the hospital only 18 minutes after getting to the scene of a Friday night motor scooter accident that claimed the life of an Akron man, dispatch center records show.

while three paramedics were busy in the back of the vehicle working on the victim.

But even when the vehicle was restarted, the firefighter in the front seat turned to the medics in the rear and said: "Are you ready to go now? And they said: 'No, we need a few more seconds,' " Bunner said.

But fire department records show:

--Dispatch first notified fire units at 9:39 p.m., just two minutes after a flurry of 911 calls began.

--Med Unit 4, the vehicle transporting Owens, was the first to arrive at the accident scene at 9:44 p.m.

--A second fire unit arrived 20 seconds later.

In all, Bunner said, four fire units and two private emergency units were at the scene.

Akron Police Lt. Rick Edwards, the department's spokesman, said seven patrol units were there.

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[Flight-LP]

Would have been the perfect time to rob a bank and then burn it down!