14 DAY TRIAL // Three people are dead following an ambulance ride in Georgia on Thursday, June 6. According to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, two EMTs were killed, as was the patient inside the ambulance, who was pronounced dead at the scene.
Authorities were alerted about the crash at 5 a.m. Thursday. The vehicle collided with a truck on state Highway 32 in Irwin County, 190 miles (305.7 km) south of Atlanta.
44-year-old EMT Teresa Ann Davis and 56-year-old Randall Whiddon were both killed when the ambulance smashed into the side of a tractor-trailer.
“The passenger car began pulling off the roadway to yield to the approaching ambulance. [...] The tractor-trailer jackknifed across the center line and into the path of the ambulance,” describes Georgia State Patrol spokeswoman Franka Young.
She adds that the ambulance had left Coffee County and crashed near the town of Ocilla. The truck was jackknifing and the ambulance hit it on its side, and it was speeding at the time.
According to My FOX 8, the lights and siren were on as the driver of the ambulance was heading east.
Davis, a resident of Axson, was behind the wheel at the time of the impact. Whiddon, of Ashburn, was seated beside her.
The patient in the back has been identified as 65-year-old Charles Arvin Smith of Tifton. His condition has not been released as of yet.
The driver of the semi, Rockwell Lott of Tifton has survived the incident with non-life-threatening wounds.
The extent of his wounds has not been made public. There were no survivors in the ambulance, police reports are saying.
The Georgia State Patrol have sent in the Specialized Crash Reconstruction Team to further investigate the accident. No charges have been made at this point and an inquiry is still ongoing.