The News Journal
 Photo courtesy Sussex County Paramedic Stephanie L. Callaway. |
SUSSEX COUNTY, Del. — A patient and paramedic died this morning in an ambulance crash in Sussex County.
The single-vehicle accident happened about 2:40 a.m. on Del. 24 (John J. Williams Highway) near the Lewes-Rehoboth fire company substation in Angola, state police spokesman Sgt. Joshua Bushweller said.
According to police, the three-member ambulance crew had just picked up patient Betty J. Hickman, 82, of Lewes from Renaissance Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in Long Neck and was traveling eastbound on Del. 24 enroute to Beebe Hospital with its emergency equipment activated. A deer entered the roadway, and driver Michael E. Wissman, 34, of Frankford maneuvered to the right shoulder to try to avoid the animal.
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