- There are approximately 6,500 ambulance crashes each year.
- Thirty-five percent of all ambulance crashes result in at least one fatality.
- There are 33 deaths for every 29 fatal ambulance crashes.
- Sixty percent of ambulance crashes occur while the vehicle is engaged in emergency services.
- Almost 60 percent of fatalities occur in the patient area of the ambulance.
- The breakdown of fatalities in ambulance crashes is: 63 percent of victims are in passenger vehicles, 21 percent are ambulance passengers, 4 percent are ambulance drivers, 12 percent of victims are non-occupants of any vehicles.