Fatal Ambulance Wreck Kills 5 in Ohio*

Saturday July 21, 2007 5:16 AM

VAN WERT, Ohio (AP) - An ambulance headed to a hospital was broadsided
by a car in an intersection and caught fire Friday night, killing three
emergency medical technicians and two patients, the State Highway Patrol
said.

The patients were being treated for injuries from an earlier car wreck
when their ambulance was struck in Crane Township, about 65 miles
southwest of Toledo.

A fourth Antwerp Emergency Medical Services worker and the driver of the
other vehicle were taken to a hospital for treatment, the patrol said.
Their conditions were not immediately available.

Names of the victims were being withheld pending the notification of the
families, and the patrol continues to investigate the accident.