SULLIVAN CO. – One person has died after an ambulance flipped Saturday afternoon near Paxton on US 41, south of Sullivan.
Indiana State Police said an ambulance from the Carlisle Lions Community Ambulance Service was traveling south when it ran into the median, came back across the road, and slid down an embankment.
ISP said the ambulance struck a ditch and wire fence, overturned twice, and landed upright on its wheels coming to a stop in a field off the highway.
The patient in the ambulance, Ralph Bogard, 68, of Merom, was airlifted to an Indianapolis hospital where he later died. Two others were injured and treated at a local hospital.
The crash remains under investigation.
