{"id":278,"date":"2019-02-08T02:26:21","date_gmt":"2019-02-08T02:26:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/emsmatters.com\/?p=278"},"modified":"2019-02-08T02:26:21","modified_gmt":"2019-02-08T02:26:21","slug":"a-stark-reality-ambulance-crash-statistics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emsmatters.com\/?p=278","title":{"rendered":"A Stark Reality \u2013 Ambulance Crash Statistics"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\t\tSource: This story comes from the Safety Unlimited News Website<\/strong><\/em>
\nhttps:\/\/sunnewsreport.com\/a-stark-reality-ambulance-crash-statistics\/<\/a><\/p>\n

A 2018 report<\/a> by a leading group of trial lawyers shows that accidents involving emergency vehicles\u2014such as fire trucks, ambulances, and police cars\u2014are a substantial problem in the United States.<\/p>\n

Vehicle fatality rates for emergency responders are estimated to be up to 4.8 times higher than the national average. Because emergency vehicles are traveling at higher speeds to reach crisis situations, accidents often result in severe injury or death.<\/p>\n

There are an estimated\u00a06,500 accidents\u00a0involving ambulances each year. 35% of crashes resulted in injury or fatality to at least 1 occupant of a vehicle involved.<\/p>\n

When injuries occur, there are, on average, three unique injuries per accident. On average,\u00a029\u00a0fatal ambulance accidents produce\u00a033\u00a0fatalities each year.<\/p>\n

Significant\u00a0efforts are underway to better understand the causes\u00a0and effects of crashes to help identify ways of keeping\u00a0both patients and practitioners as safe as possible.<\/p>\n

The NHTSA has released its guidance<\/a> on ambulance safety for patients\u00a0and providers.<\/p>\n

Since 1975, NHTSA has collected information on every fatal crash in the\u00a0country through the Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS).<\/p>\n

Through\u00a0NHTSA\u2019s General Estimates System (GES) program, a nationally-representative sample of police-reported crashes across the country is collected, and\u00a0estimate the number of total crashes resulting in injuries, including those\u00a0involving ambulances.<\/p>\n

The program determines whether people killed or injured were\u00a0drivers or passengers in the ambulances involved in crashes, but work is still ongoing to collect consistent data on whether they were patients, providers\u00a0or neither, such as patient family members.<\/p>\n

The guidance also shows that drowsy or fatigued EMS providers are\u00a0substantially more likely to be injured on the job, commit a medical error, or perform a safety-compromising behavior while driving.<\/p>\n

This year, NHTSA\u2019s\u00a0Office of Behavioral Safety Research will begin bringing together fatigue experts and EMS stakeholders to\u00a0help improve fatigue-related guidelines, scheduling, and reporting in EMS.<\/p>\n

Effective driver training remains a top priority for\u00a0EMS agencies across the country.<\/p>\n

NHTSA\u2019s Office of\u00a0Behavioral Safety Research is currently conducting\u00a0a nationwide review of emergency vehicle operator\u00a0training practices.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Source: This story comes from the Safety Unlimited News Website https:\/\/sunnewsreport.com\/a-stark-reality-ambulance-crash-statistics\/ A 2018 report by a leading group of trial lawyers shows that accidents involving emergency vehicles\u2014such as fire trucks, ambulances, and police cars\u2014are a substantial problem in the United States. Vehicle fatality rates for emergency responders are estimated to...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":285,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ems"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/emsmatters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/ambulance-crash_prince-georges-county-ems.jpg?fit=720%2C478&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/emsmatters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/emsmatters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/emsmatters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emsmatters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emsmatters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=278"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/emsmatters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emsmatters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/emsmatters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emsmatters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emsmatters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}