Tuesday, January 10, 2012

** UK EMS brass investigating after wheel dislodges from in-transit ambulance

** Manitoba medic still in critical condition after last week ambulance/car crash

UNITED KINGDOM NEWS

** North West Ambulance Service officials in Bolton are investigating after an in-transit ambulance lost a wheel while transporting an elderly patient to hospital. The Bolton News (January 9) said the undated incident played out in front of the patient’s son who was trailing behind the unit in his own vehicle. According to the newspaper, Paul Brady, 45, said he heard a large bang before the tire dislodged. It then rolled in his direction, jumped a car, and came to rest in a nearby garden. Brady’s 81-year-old mother Renee, meanwhile, survived the incident and continues to recover in hospital.

CANADA NEWS

** A Melita, Manitoba medic, injured last week in an ambulance/car crash, remains in critical condition in Winnipeg’s Health Sciences Centre. That is the word from the Winnipeg Free Press (January 9) which said the Sunday condition report has remained largely unchanged since the unnamed practitioner was brought in following the Thursday accident. The driver of the car involved in the mishap, 54, died at the scene. Initial information indicates the man crossed the median into the path of the EMS unit around 6 p.m. some five miles outside of Souris.