OCILLA, Ga. — An ambulance with its lights and sirens on collided Thursday with a semitrailer on a Georgia highway, killing the two medics and the patient on board, authorities said.
The Georgia State Patrol said in a news release that the wreck happened around 5 a.m. Thursday on state Highway 32, near the small town of Ocilla in south Georgia.
Authorities said the Coffee County ambulance was heading east with its lights and siren activated when the westbound semi jack-knifed across the centerline and into the ambulance’s path. The truck jack-knifed when a car ahead of it began to pull off the road.
The State Patrol said the patient was identified as Charles Arvin Smith, 65, of Tifton. The EMTs were identified as Teresa Ann Davis, 44, of Axson, the driver, and Randall Whiddon, 56, of Ashburn, who was in the front passenger seat. The State Patrol identified the semi driver as Rockwell Lott of Tifton. It wasn’t immediately known if he was hurt.