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Driver, paramedic hospitalized after Kan. ambulance crash

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SALINE COUNTY- Three people were injured in accident just after 8:30a.m. on Tuesday in Saline County.

The Kansas Highway Patrol reported an Ellsworth County ambulance driven by Jeremiah Dale Brown, 34, Great Bend,

was eastbound on Kansas 140 near Brookville.

The ambulance attempted to pass an eastbound Ford F350 pickup pulling a trailer and driven by Donald W. Goddard, 52, Brookville.

The truck was making a left turn into a field. The ambulance hit the truck in the left side.

The driver of the ambulance was entrapped in the vehicle and extricated by emergency crews at the scene, according to the KHP.

Brown and a paramedic on board Ricky D. Soukup, 49, Ellsworth, were transported to the hospital in Salina with minor injuries.

A woman patient on board, Kathryn Whitmer, 57, Wilson, suffering from respiratory distress, was transported to the hospital in Salina.

Goddard was not injured.

 

 

 

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