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Ambulance statistics to (hopefully) get your attention!!!
6,500 crashes per year (18/day), nationwide.
Kills more EMS providers than all other causes combined!!!
Results in the most EMS lawsuits.
Crashes account for 10 ambulance lawsuits for every 1 malpractice lawsuit.
Average settlement when an injury occurs: $1,000,000.00.
Crashes injure 10/day, kill 36/year, nationwide. (usually in the other vehicle)
Ambulance crashes cost over $500 million/year, nationwide.
Of 339 fatal crashes between 1987 & 1997, almost 41% of ambulance drivers had a prior incident record.
EMT’s have a higher rate of death in crashes than police officers and firefighters COMBINED!
The most dangerous part of the job is responding to and returning from a call!!!
There was at least 1 ambulance crash/accident in each of Michigan’s 83 counties, with a total of 295 ambulance crashes in Michigan (2001).
Deaths in motor vehicle crashes involving an ambulance during an emergency run (1980-2000):
Person(s) in the other vehicle died in 77.8% of the fatal crashes (ambulance operator sued nearly 100% of the time).
The ambulance passenger (in patient compartment) died in 16.5% of the crashes, and the ambulance operator died in 3.7% of the crashes.
2% of ambulance crashes involved the death of a pedestrian. These crashes injure at least 10 people per day and kill approximately 36 people every year, again usually the people in other vehicle.
Occupational fatality rates, per year, in transportation-related incidents:
| General population |
2:100,000 |
| Firefighters |
4.5:100,000 |
| Law Enforcement Officers |
6.3:100,000 |
| EMS |
12.7:100,000 |
(According to NHTSA FARS
(fatality analysis reporting system)) |
EMT's have a higher rate of death in crashes than law enforcement officers and firefighters COMBINED!
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