Lansing,MI : 1 dead, 2 injured after ambulance goes off bridge on October, Monday 16th 2017

The two emergency workers in the ambulance that crashed this morning are hospitalized in serious condition this afternoon.

6 News has learned that the passenger in the ambulance, Rick Hallman, is Lansing City Councilmember Carol Wood’s nephew. Wood tells 6 News that her nephew is in surgery for serious arm injuries and is still awaiting surgery on a back injury.

The crash remains under investigation and this story will be updated as more information becomes available.

UPDATE (11:40 a.m.) – Michigan State Police say the driver of a car has died and two emergency workers are injured after a crash that sent an ambulance off a bridge and into waist-deep water of a creek below.

State police spokesman Lt. David Kaiser says the Mobile Medical Response ambulance was heading back to the station for shift change early Monday when it apparently ran a stop sign in Saginaw County and collided with the car. He says two emergency workers inside were hospitalized in serious condition.

Kaiser says the car’s driver 21-year-old Dustin Sharp of Burt died following the crash.

The ambulance ended up on its side in Misteguay Creek.

The crash happened near the border of Maple Grove and Albee townships, about 70 miles northwest of Detroit.


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1 dead, 2 injured after ambulance goes off bridge