By Christina Lusby
WINK News
August 21, 2015
IMMOKALEE, FLORIDA
Internal e-mails from Collier EMS say a patient on the ground was run over by the Immokalee Fire Chief’s truck.
There were a total of 5 accounts written about what happened on August 14th, 2015 at 12:42pm.
The crews were working a single car accident along SR 82 and Corkscrew. There were five people inside the car, one had been ejected.
According to the email accounts, paramedics were loading up patients when they heard someone yell “stop”. Some turned to see a white truck rolling toward patient Eulalia Juan Pedro who was strapped to a backboard on the ground.
The emails say the truck tire came to rest on the patients stomach stating “fire fighters were trying to push it back off the patient”. They added, “the truck was up against the patient abdomen and the patient head was under the front end of the truck.”
Immokalee Fire Chief Paul Anderson says the truck was his but maintains it was stopped before touching the patient. He says it slipped out of gear and started rolling with no one inside. According to the email accounts, one paramedic said “the patient stated to my partner in Spanish that she had abdominal pain from the truck hitting her”.
Pedro is still in the hospital; she is listed in good condition