Indiana Ambulance Wreck Injures Three
INDIANAPOLIS --
An ambulance taking a woman to a hospital without lights and siren activated wrecked with a dump truck on Interstate 65 late Tuesday morning, injuring the woman and two others in the ambulance, state police said.
The three who were hurt -- including an emergency medical technician and a paramedic -- were taken to Wishard Memorial Hospital with non-life-threatening injuries after the wreck near the Meridian Street exit just north of downtown, police said.
Police said the ambulance was going north on I-65 in the left lane when it struck the back of a trailer pulled by a slower-moving dump truck. The ambulance spun to the front of the truck, and the two vehicles collided again, police said.
No one in the truck was injured. The trailer was holding a traffic sign owned by the state.
Injured were the original patient, Sharee Price, 32, of Indianapolis; the ambulance's driver, Kelly A. Pflanzer, 35, of Indianapolis; and emergency medical technician Dennis Dorsey, 32, of Indianapolis.
Information on what was ailing Price before the wreck wasn't available.
A state police trooper at the wreck site had told 6News that the ambulance's lights and siren were activated when the wreck happened. State police later Tuesday issued a news release that said the lights and siren weren't activated.
