EMS crew in trouble for chasing after suspected drunk driver
In Johnston County, North Carolina a private ambulance crew is in trouble after they pursued a woman they suspected of driving drunk. The two are employed by 50/210 EMS. While their boss admits the EMS crew had the best of intentions the biggest concern is leaving the area where they are supposed to be working. (Thanks to Mike Legeros of Legero Fire Blog for sending this to STATter911.com.)
Here’s part of the radio conversation: “She rolled right out into the middle of an intersection and stopped there. She wouldn’t make eye contact with me when I walked up to the window. And as soon as I got there, she sped off and was going over a hundred, um, trying to get away from us down 210. And now she’s pulled into this McDonald’s here and she is acting like completely incoherent.”
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But following a drunk driver down Highway 210 was a violation of paramedic protocol according to the director of Johnston County EMS. And considering the two paramedics were following someone they estimate was going 100 miles an hour in a 45 zone also calls into question whether they were speeding too.
But the biggest violation is leaving their contracted district in Johnston County. And there’s no question about that since the paramedics ended up following the driver all the way to a McDonald’s in Angier in neighboring Harnett County.
