Tribute Held for S.C. EMT Killed in Crash
Sept. 28--A line of rescue vehicles, from counties near and far, gathered at Miller-Rivers-Calder Funeral Home in Chesterfield today and drove in procession from there to Cross Roads Baptist Church in Ruby to participate in the funeral service for Belinda Gale Driggers Rivers.
Rivers is the Sandhills Medical Services Emergency Medical Technician of Cheraw who was killed Tuesday morning in Monroe, N.C., when the ambulance she was riding in collided with an 18-wheeler.
River's casket was draped with a United States flag and carried by her co-workers of Sandhills Medical Services.
Rivers, 43, was pronounced dead at the scene of the accident, said Michael B. Thomas of the Monroe City Police Department. There was no patient on board at the time.
According to Thomas, the driver of the Sandhills Medical Service ambulance, EMT Johathan Cory Brown, is listed in stable condition at Carolinas Medical Center -- Main, in Charlotte. The truck driver, Kenneth Murphy Jr. of Madison, N.C., was not injured.
The cause of the accident, said Monroe Police Chief Debra Duncan, is still under investigation.
