After ambulance breaks down trying to respond to crash, woman airlifted instead
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BONNEVILLE COUNTY — A woman was airlifted to a local hospital after a single-vehicle rollover crash on New Year’s Day.
Idaho State Police, along with the Bonneville County Sheriff’s Office, were dispatched at 11:35 a.m. on Monday to the rollover on eastbound US Highway 26 at Gravel Way. It is near the Palisades Dam.
ISP Lt. Marvin Crain told EastIdahoNews.com the crash involved a 2008 Nissan Titan.
It’s unclear what led to the vehicle landing in a ditch, but both eastbound and westbound lanes were blocked for about 30 minutes, Crain said.
A ground ambulance was originally going to take the driver — a woman in her 20s — to the hospital.
“As the Swan Valley ambulance was en route to transport the driver, it broke down. So they had Air Idaho land and transport to a local hospital,” Crain said.
Crain added the driver had non-life-threatening injuries. She was the only person in the vehicle.