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.


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    Title :

    Highway Accident Report - Overturn of Ross Ambulance Service Ambulance, State Route 116, Littleton, New Hampshire, August 22, 1978


    Publication date :

    1979


    Size :

    30 pages


    Type of media :

    Report


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English




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