Ambulances were used as long ago as the eleventh and twelfth centuries, when men wounded in battle during the Crusades were carried by horse-drawn wagons behind the front lines for treatment. A similar system was used in 1487 by the Spanish forces...

An ambulance is a vehicle for transporting sick or injured people,[1] to, from or between places of treatment for an illness or injury. The term ambulance is used to describe a vehicle used to bring medical care to patients outside of the hospital and...

Byline: COLIN FERNANDEZ A GIRL of 16 died after falling out of the back of a speeding ambulance on to a motorway in the early hours. She opened the unlocked doors of the vehicle at 3.30am and tumbled out before a...

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A pregnant woman miscarried in western Japan on Wednesday after nine hospitals refused to admit her and the ambulance transporting her crashed on its way to a tenth, news reports said.The incident triggered an immediate outcry in Japan, where the government has promised to improve...

The ambulance crew who picked up a dying runner during the Chicago Marathon apparently got lost on the way to a hospital, authorities said.Chad Schieber collapsed while running the Oct. 7 race, and was about six blocks away from the University of Illinois at Chicago...