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IndyStar.com Metro & State Morgan County Indiana
February 5, 2008
2 die after ambulance, SUV collide head-on in Morgan Co.
By Amy Bartner
amy.bartner@indystar.com
Neither alcohol nor weather conditions were thought to have contributed to a head-on crash Monday that killed two men, one a 17-year veteran of the Brown Township Fire Department, Indiana State Police said.
Two people died in this head-on collision Monday involving a Brown Township Fire Department ambulance and a sport-utility vehicle in northern Morgan County. Witnesses told police the Jeep crossed the center line. - Provided by Indiana State Police
Brown Township Fire Capt. David Sherfick, 40, Mooresville, and James R. Hoskins, 45, Nashville, were pronounced dead at the crash scene in northern Morgan County.
Sherfick was driving a Brown Township ambulance west on Ind. 144, east of Mann Road, just before 4 p.m. The ambulance was returning after transporting a patient to Indianapolis. Witnesses told police the Jeep driven by Hoskins, which was headed east on Ind. 144, crossed the center line at Mann Road, said Madison Township Fire Department spokesman Lt. Tim Clifford.
Sherfick’s death has hit his co-workers hard, Clifford said.
“It’s never easy,” Clifford said. “I liken it to family because we are family. We all do this job because we love to help people.”
Reserve firefighter Evan Kerkhof, 22, Mooresville, also was in the ambulance and was injured but was in good condition at Methodist Hospital, Clifford said.
The ambulance did not have its sirens or lights flashing at the time of the crash, he said.
At least six agencies responded, and a stretch of Ind. 144 was closed for several hours. Emergency response crews were still on the scene three hours after the crash.
“I can’t say enough good things about him,” Clifford said of Sherfick. “He will be truly missed by anyone who knew him and who worked with him.
“The healing process is something that is going to take a long time.”
There were 22 fatal ambulance crashes in the U.S. in 2006, according to The Fatal Accident Reporting System.
February 5, 2008
2 die after ambulance, SUV collide head-on in Morgan Co.
By Amy Bartner
amy.bartner@indystar.com
Neither alcohol nor weather conditions were thought to have contributed to a head-on crash Monday that killed two men, one a 17-year veteran of the Brown Township Fire Department, Indiana State Police said.
Two people died in this head-on collision Monday involving a Brown Township Fire Department ambulance and a sport-utility vehicle in northern Morgan County. Witnesses told police the Jeep crossed the center line. - Provided by Indiana State Police
Brown Township Fire Capt. David Sherfick, 40, Mooresville, and James R. Hoskins, 45, Nashville, were pronounced dead at the crash scene in northern Morgan County.
Sherfick was driving a Brown Township ambulance west on Ind. 144, east of Mann Road, just before 4 p.m. The ambulance was returning after transporting a patient to Indianapolis. Witnesses told police the Jeep driven by Hoskins, which was headed east on Ind. 144, crossed the center line at Mann Road, said Madison Township Fire Department spokesman Lt. Tim Clifford.
Sherfick’s death has hit his co-workers hard, Clifford said.
“It’s never easy,” Clifford said. “I liken it to family because we are family. We all do this job because we love to help people.”
Reserve firefighter Evan Kerkhof, 22, Mooresville, also was in the ambulance and was injured but was in good condition at Methodist Hospital, Clifford said.
The ambulance did not have its sirens or lights flashing at the time of the crash, he said.
At least six agencies responded, and a stretch of Ind. 144 was closed for several hours. Emergency response crews were still on the scene three hours after the crash.
“I can’t say enough good things about him,” Clifford said of Sherfick. “He will be truly missed by anyone who knew him and who worked with him.
“The healing process is something that is going to take a long time.”
There were 22 fatal ambulance crashes in the U.S. in 2006, according to The Fatal Accident Reporting System.
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