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Thursday, October 22, 2009
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Two people have been killed after an ambulance slammed into the back of a TDOT vehicle on Interstate 65 near Wedgewood Avenue.
Officials said the Rural/Metro ambulance was travelling in the northbound lanes when it hit the truck.
The two fatalities are the driver of the ambulance and the patient being transported.
An off-duty Metro firefighter, Evans Johnson, was transported to Vanderbilt University Medical Center in critical condition. Johnson was tending to the patient in the ambulance.
The driver of the TDOT truck, Robert Green from Columbia, was transported to a hospital with minor injuries.
Northbound traffic has been slowed with the roadway partially blocked while emergency crews work to clear the scene.
TDOT estimates the scene to be cleared by 6 p.m.
Rural/Metro is a private ambulance company that serves Franklin County, but also does private transport through out Middle Tennessee.
The identity of the patient being transported was not released.
Thursday, October 22, 2009
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Two people have been killed after an ambulance slammed into the back of a TDOT vehicle on Interstate 65 near Wedgewood Avenue.
Officials said the Rural/Metro ambulance was travelling in the northbound lanes when it hit the truck.
The two fatalities are the driver of the ambulance and the patient being transported.
An off-duty Metro firefighter, Evans Johnson, was transported to Vanderbilt University Medical Center in critical condition. Johnson was tending to the patient in the ambulance.
The driver of the TDOT truck, Robert Green from Columbia, was transported to a hospital with minor injuries.
Northbound traffic has been slowed with the roadway partially blocked while emergency crews work to clear the scene.
TDOT estimates the scene to be cleared by 6 p.m.
Rural/Metro is a private ambulance company that serves Franklin County, but also does private transport through out Middle Tennessee.
The identity of the patient being transported was not released.