Prominent Breast CA Surgeon Struck and Killed By Ambulette

[WAS967 97]

These news agencies really needs to learn the difference between an ambulance and an ambulette.

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Woman Struck By Ambulance On Upper East Side

APRIL 11TH, 2005

A woman is fighting for her life after being hit by an ambulance in

Manhattan

Monday.

The accident happened at the corner of Second Avenue and 64th Street at

about

10 a.m.

Police say the 57-year-old woman was crossing the street when she was hit by

the ambulance as it tried to make a left turn. She was taken to Cornell

Medical

Center.

NY1 has reached out to the ambulance company, American Medical Response, for

comment.

It's not known at this time whether the ambulance was responding to a call

at

the time of the accident.

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Breast Cancer Surgeon Fatally Struck By Ambulette

POSTED: 7:44 pm EDT April 11, 2005

UPDATED: 7:49 pm EDT April 11, 2005

NEW YORK -- Prominent cancer surgeon Dr. Jeanne Petrek died on Monday in a

tragic accident when she was struck by an ambulette near her midtown

Manhattan office.

New York City Police said Petrek, a breast cancer surgeon and Director of

the Surgical Program at New York's Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center,

was struck by the ambulette as she was crossing East 64th Street and Second

Avenue at the crosswalk on Monday.

The ambulette was making a left turn from Second Avenue onto East 64th

Street when it struck the 57-year-old Petrek, who lived in Bronxville. She

was taken to nearby Cornell Medical Center, where she later died.

Police said it appears to have been an accident. A summons was issued to the

ambulette driver for failure to yield to a pedestrian in a crosswalk.

[Guest NYTruckie]

On TV it looked like an Ambulance. Is anybody sure which it was Ambulette or Ambulance

[Skooter92 7]

It was an AMR BLS AMBOLANCE.

As opposed to a paramedic lette (paralette).