A patient and Banks County emergency medical personnel were injured when the ambulance they were in left the roadway and overturned Saturday night.
The single-vehicle wreck involving the 2013 Dodge Ram ambulance happened at 9:25 p.m. May 20 on Ga. 51 east of Morris Gardiner Road, according to Georgia State Patrol Post 6 in Gainesville.
The ambulance was transporting a patient to Northeast Georgia Medical Center and was traveling east on Ga. 51 between Homer and Lula at the time of the wreck. The ambulance traveled onto the south shoulder of the road, then overturned off the road onto its top.
William Cline, 51, of Carnesville, was driving the ambulance and told the investigating trooper the vehicle’s passenger-side tires left the pavement and he lost control and was unable to steer the vehicle back onto the road, according to Cpl. Spencer Munger of GSP Post 6.
The Banks County EMS employee who was unrestrained in the patient area of the vehicle was injured in the wreck, as was the patient who was strapped onto a stretcher that remained secured onto the floor of the patient compartment, according to GSP.
All three occupants of the vehicle were taken by ambulance to Northeast Georgia Medical Center for evaluation of non-life-threatening injuries, according to Munger.
