DUI Ambulance Driver Crashes Into Ditch, Leaving 66-Year-Old Patient Dead

[Demovictory9]

DUI Ambulance Driver Crashes Into Ditch, Leaving 66-Year-Old Patient Dead: Police

Police say that a driver who was operating an ambulance under the influence crashed in Fairburn, Georgia, Friday night in an incident that led to the death of a patient.

The patient, Wilton Thomason Jr., 66, died when the ambulance overturned into a ditch, according to a summary of the incident that the Georgia State Patrol sent to Newsweek on Saturday.

The driver, Kevin McCorvey, 34, of Marietta, Georgia, was arrested and faces charges of DUI, second-degree vehicular homicide, open container and failure to maintain lane, the the state patrol stated. He was taken to the Fulton County Jail on Friday.

"Mr. McCorvey failed to maintain his lane and traveled off the west shoulder of the roadway causing the ambulance to overturn in a ditch. A patient, Mr. Wilton Thomason Jr., 66 years old, that was in the back of the ambulance was found to be unrestrained and suffered fatal injuries," the Georgia State Patrol wrote.

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[orleans]

1. how horrible--

"Wilton Thomason Jr., 66, was in the ambulance as a non-emergency patient and was not restrained. He was killed during the incident."
https://www.ajc.com/news/cops-drunken-ambulance-driver-crashes-in-fairburn-killing-patient/H3ZUN2652ZF27MUX4KDEDSBNOA/

doesn't matter if the patient in the back was non-emergency--probably should have been restrained anyway...just in case they hit a bump in the road so he wouldn't go flying around in the back.

on edit: or in case the ambulance driver was drunk and ran off the road into a ditch