HAMILTON, WV. (THECOUNT) — Brittany Young, from Glen Jean, and Ronald Dick II, from Shady Spring, have been identified as the Jan Care Ambulance paramedics killed Saturday in a crash involving their ambulance in West Virginia.
The first responders died after their ambulance collided with a tractor-trailer in Nicholas County Saturday morning.
Troopers say they responded to a multi-vehicle crash on US-19 near Powell Mountain in Hamilton, WV, just before 8 a.m. Saturday morning.
Officers discovered a Jan Care Ambulance has struck the rear of a tractor-trailer. The trailer was parked in the right truck lane for an undetermined reason, reports WDTV.
You and Dick were pronounced dead at the scene of massive blunt force trauma injuries.
The two people inside the tractor-trailer were uninjured.
The cause of the crash is still unknown, but an investigation is being conducted.
Geo quick facts: Hamilton is an unincorporated community in Fayette County, West Virginia – Wikipedia.
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