Patient ejected & dies after ambulance runs off ramp in Mansfield, OH
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The crash happened at 11:45 p.m. on the I-71 southbound exit ramp to Ohio 13 in Washington Township. The vehicle was from Community Care Ambulance Service of Ashtabula.
The 2011 Ford Ambulance driven by Amber D. Brown, 30, of Cleveland, traveled off the left side of the exit ramp, striking the guardrail, according to the Ohio Highway Patrol’s Mansfield post. The vehicle continued through the guardrail over an embankment, where it rolled several times.
Patient Michael Willis, 56, of Cleveland, as well as EMT James Phillips, 30, of Garfield Hts., were ejected from the patient transport area in the back of the ambulance. Willis was pronounced dead at the scene.
Phillips and ambulance driver Amber Brown, 30, of Cleveland, were taken to the hospital with minor injuries.
