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Emergency Response Vehicle Accident: Insights and Preventative Measures

This report outlines a near-miss accident involving a fire response vehicle at an intersection. While responding to a structure fire with lights and siren, the POV stopped at a red light but failed to clear all lanes. Another driver, with a green light, collided with the POV. Key contributing factors included stress, distractions, visibility issues, and vehicle type. It emphasizes the importance of wearing seatbelts, maintaining focus, and adhering to safety protocols. Understanding these factors is critical for improving emergency service safety and reducing potential injuries.

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Emergency Response Vehicle Accident: Insights and Preventative Measures

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  1. POV Responses • Date: 2006 • Time of Day: 2000 • Location: Stadium Blvd / Providence Rd • Response Mode: Emergency Response • Description: While responding to a structure fire with lights and siren, the POV approached a red light. The POV came to a complete stop at the beginning of intersection but did not clear all of the lanes. The POV was struck by a driver who had a green light and did not see the POV.

  2. Contributing Factors • Stress • Distractions • Mobile Radios • Emergency lights and siren • Map Books • Text Tones • Passengers • Narrow roadways • Excessive Speeds • Large/Heavy trucks • Different apparatus types • Visibility (fog, dust, smoke, etc.)

  3. How long will it take me to stop? • Miles per hour × 1.466 = feet per second • Traveling 55 mph would mean that you travel 80 feet per second • Air brakes often take 0.5-1 second to react after you press the pedal • A fire truck traveling 55mph will take 393 feet to sop on a dry pavement roadway

  4. Freightliner

  5. Kenworth

  6. Equipment in the cab

  7. Where should I put my gear?

  8. Ways to Improve • Always wear your seatbelt • 75% of firefighters killed in apparatus were not wearing seatbelts (NIOSH) • Use a backer (use larger area) • Come to a complete stop at red lights and stop signs • Keep your focus on driving • Slow Down

  9. A Culture of Safety • It is up to all of us to keep each other safe!

  10. Where are we getting hurt? • Training • Entering/exiting vehicle • Slip/trip/fall • Fire Incident • EMS/Rescue Incident • Vehicle Crash * Every $1 on work comp expense yields $4-10 in indirect expenses

  11. Injury Analysis Statistics

  12. What gets impacted? • Impact of the injury or death on emergency services • Reduction of manpower • Impact of the damage to the fire department; vehicles and equipment lost • Impact to the families involved: • Worker’s Compensation • Insurance benefits • Long range income projections • Impact to the community with loss of apparatus or personnel

  13. Situation #1 • What do I do if I see someone not wearing a seatbelt? Or not using a backer?

  14. Situation #2 • What are my expectations when I respond by myself in an apparatus?

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