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BROOKLYN WOMAN FATALLY STRUCK IN CROSSWALK BY EMERGENCY VEHICLE
Posted by: William Gentile
December 15, 2009

A woman in Brooklyn was killed by an ambulance early this morning. NY1 reports, "Sources say an emergency medical services vehicle struck a 80-year-old woman as she was standing in a crosswalk on Bay Parkway by the Belt Parkway just after 6 a.m. The ambulance was transporting a 100-year-old woman with stomach pains to Lutheran Hospital."

Assigning fault (legal liability) for a car accident is a matter of deciding who was negligent. In many cases, prompt investigation will reveal what rule or rules were violated - and by whom. In others, the answers may be harder to find such as where the design of a car or even of an intersection or road was the major cause of the wreck.

According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) - a car accident happens to someone, somewhere in the United States, every 10 seconds of every day. Unfortunately, car accidents do not "just happen." In almost all cases, and especially in the most serious and deadly ones - someone is to blame.  Emergency vehicles do get certain protections under the law, however, those injured by emergency vehicles should contact an attorney as there are situations where the acts of the driver of a emergency vehicle can lead to liability.

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