An ambulance crashed on a Long Island highway in Nassau County on April 20, killing the driver and a transplant recipient who had recently undergone an operation.
According to ABC7, the New York State Police said the ambulance struck the Eagle Avenue overpass, trapping the driver inside, which left no room to escape the fatal crash.
Larry Fuller, 55, an employee with the Hunter EMS ambulance service, was taking James Larson, 36, who just had a heart and kidney transplant at Mount Sinai Hospital in Manhattan to A. Holly Patterson Extended Care Facility in Uniondale for rehabilitation, officials said.
It was Larson’s first time leaving the hospital after 15 months, relatives told Newsday.
The crash, which happened at around noon on the Southern State Parkway, at exit 17 in West Hempstead, also left another EMT with a broken leg and concussion, ABC7 reported.
According to the Mirror, the vehicle apparently did not have its lights or sirens on at the time.
The crash left the front of the ambulance in ruins.
Though the cause of the fatal crash remains unclear, police said there were no other vehicles involved.
An investigation of the incident is ongoing.
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