Woman Killed In Ambulance Crash
POSTED: 1:46 pm EDT April 3, 2008
UPDATED: 1:48 pm EDT April 3, 2008
LOUISVILLE, Ky. -- A woman on her way to the hospital was killed
after the ambulance transporting her crashed.
The wreck happened around 12:30 a.m. Thursday at the corner of
Rockford Lane and Van Hoose Road in Shively.
Vicki Whobrey, 54, was taken to University Hospital, where she died
from injuries sustained in the crash.
According to the ambulance's driver, an unknown person ran across the
road. The driver swerved to avoid the pedestrian, causing the vehicle
to sideswipe a utility pole, run into a culvert and slam into a fence.
"I'd heard an explosion kind of woke me up," said neighbor Ron
Humphries. "By the time I got out of the house there was already
sirens and of course, blue lights and I think three or four
ambulances and fire trucks, police cars. It seems like they did a
really good job of getting here right after it happened."
"I think the initial officer was there within a minute," said Shively
Police Chief Col. Ralph Miller. "He just happened to be in the area
around Rockford Lane and Dixie Highway. Other med units arrived on
the scene promptly."
Due to privacy laws, officials cannot say why Whobrey was being taken
to the hospital, but they did say the ambulance was "in a hurry" to
get there.