Speeding SUV Kills Apparatus Driver

Mar 13, 2007 11:40 AM

A speeding SUV rammed into a fire apparatus as the two vehicles entered an intersection in a densely populated urban area in Michigan. Both drivers were killed.

The accident occurred as the apparatus was responding to a fire in a vacant residential building. The impact ejected the driver of the apparatus and one of the firefighters. Three other firefighters in the apparatus were not ejected, but suffered injuries.

For more information about this and other firefighter deaths in 2007, visit www.usfa.fema.gov/fatalities.

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