About 3:30 p.m. on August 22, 1978, an ambulance transporting a cardiac patient to a hospital and traveling at a calculated speed of 90 to 95 mph failed to negotiate a curve on New Hampshire State Route 116 east of Littleton, New Hampshire, and rolled over. Two persons in the ambulance were killed and the driver was injured. The patient had died before the accident. The National Transportation Safety Board determines that the probable cause of this accident was loss of control of the ambulance, which had oversteer characteristics, by an unskilled driver at a high rate of speed. Contributing to the cause of the accident was the driver's lack of training in the operation of the ambulance at high speeds.
Highway Accident Report - Overturn of Ross Ambulance Service Ambulance, State Route 116, Littleton, New Hampshire, August 22, 1978
1979
30 pages
Report
Keine Angabe
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Transportation Safety , Road Transportation , Motor vehicle accidents , Accident investigations , Ambulances , Steering , Control , New Hampshire , Divided highways , Motor vehicle operators , New Hampshire route 116 , Littleton(New Hampshire) , Occupant protection , Crashworthiness , Rollover accidents , Cornering , Road curves , Oversteer , Vehicle handling , Vehicle control , Human factors