A call came for a rollover accident on highway 82. It was the first snowfall of the year. When we got on scene, another medic  and I went up to help a lady and her child in the car. As we were walking through the ditch, heard the ambulance back up and I couldn’t think why our driver was backing up. No less than a minuet later, a car slammed into the side of our ambulance, and then into another car. No sooner than that happened, another car slid off the road and into the ditch a few feet away from us. We watched as another car stopped in the fast lane of the highway.

We decided to shut down the highway and all was better. But it was a HUGE eye opener to see how dangerous a highway was and how that car might have slammed into us instead of the ambulance if our driver had not backed up. Lesson: never turn your back on a scene and use the apparatus to block traffic.

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