Three Injured in Kan. Ambulance Crash

Aug. 22--A Lindsborg ambulance was running with lights and sirens when it collided with a car driven by a Brookville teen at the intersection of Crawford Street and Broadway Boulevard Sunday night, a police department spokesman said.

Capt. Mike Sweeney said the driver of the car, Tel Phelps, 17, was ejected during the collision at 9:56 p.m.

Phelps was transported to Salina Regional Health Center. A hospital spokesman said no information could be released on his condition.

Also treated in the emergency department at the Salina hospital were the driver of the ambulance, Kyli McGreevy, 23, of Ellsworth; and medic Alesha Schoshke, 33, of Lindsborg.

The patient who was being transported to Salina in the Lindsborg ambulance -- Linda Seidel, 68, of Roxbury -- was in good condition Monday.

Sweeney said McGreevy had abrasions on her arms and stomach, and Schoshke complained of head, neck and back pain. Seidel had a cut on her chin because of the crash, but otherwise appeared to be unharmed, he said.

Sweeney said Phelps' northbound red 2002 Pontiac Firebird was attempting a west turn onto Crawford Street on a green light when the collision with the ambulance headed east on Crawford occurred. The front of the ambulance struck the driver's side of the car.

Witnesses at the scene of the crash said the driver of the car flew out of his rear window and was lying under the front of his car after the vehicle spun during the crash.

"He was pinned under the front tires, myself and the other first individuals on scene lifted the vehicle up and rolled it back off of him," wrote Tyler Grimes in an email to the Journal.

Zach Rorabaugh, of Salina, also said he assisted in pulling the car off of Phelps. Rorabaugh described Phelps as lying directly in front of the tires, under the front of the car.

"We didn't have to lift it all that much, he was just under the front, in front of the front tires," Rorabaugh said.

-- Reporter Erin Mathews can be reached at 822-1415 or by email at emathews@salina.com.

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