{"id":203,"date":"2015-12-15T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-12-15T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/defranciscolaw.lawblogger.net\/blog\/lawsuit-woman-riding-in-ambulance-suffers-spinal-cord-injury\/"},"modified":"2017-10-23T12:29:06","modified_gmt":"2017-10-23T16:29:06","slug":"lawsuit-woman-riding-in-ambulance-suffers-spinal-cord-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.defranciscolaw.com\/blog\/lawsuit-woman-riding-in-ambulance-suffers-spinal-cord-injury\/","title":{"rendered":"Lawsuit: woman riding in ambulance suffers spinal cord injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Spinal cord injuries can lead to devastating outcomes. In some cases, this type of injury can leave someone <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defranciscolaw.com\/spinal-cord-injuries.html\">permanently paralyzed<\/a> and in the worst case scenario, it can even lead to death.<\/p>\n<p>A really sad story has recently come out about an elderly couple from another state. The husband was being transported in an ambulance to a hospice care facility back in 2012. During the transfer, his 85-year-old wife was in the ambulance with him. Suddenly, the driver of the ambulance stopped to avoid hitting a vehicle in front of him, according to the report. The sudden stop caused the elderly woman to pitch forward and strike her head on the inside of the ambulance.<\/p>\n<p>The woman was taken to a hospital and died the next day. She had reportedly suffered a severe spinal cord injury that led to <a href=\"http:\/\/lacrossetribune.com\/news\/local\/lawsuit-filed-over-fatal-injury-caused-during-hospice-transport\/article_0979d758-f6d9-56bd-a274-b31c3af90bd0.html\" target=\"_blank\">severe pain before her death<\/a>. She was hoping to spend time with her husband at the hospice care facility before he died. Her husband died from cancer hours after she passed away at the hospital from her injuries.<\/p>\n<div class=\"read_more_link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.defranciscolaw.com\/blog\/lawsuit-woman-riding-in-ambulance-suffers-spinal-cord-injury\/\"  title=\"Continue Reading Lawsuit: woman riding in ambulance suffers spinal cord injury\" class=\"more-link\">Continue Reading \u203a<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spinal cord injuries can lead to devastating outcomes. In some cases, this type of injury can leave someone permanently paralyzed and in the worst case scenario, it can even lead to death. A really sad story has recently come out about an elderly couple from another state. The husband was being transported in an ambulance [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[21],"class_list":["post-203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spinal-cord-injuries","tag-spinal-cord-injuries"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Lawsuit: woman riding in ambulance suffers spinal cord injury &#8212; Syracuse Personal Injury Law Blog &#8212; December 15, 2015<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Lawsuit: woman riding in ambulance suffers spinal cord injury - Spinal Cord Injuries - DeFrancisco &amp; Falgiatano Law Firm\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.defranciscolaw.com\/blog\/lawsuit-woman-riding-in-ambulance-suffers-spinal-cord-injury\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Lawsuit: woman riding in ambulance suffers spinal cord injury &#8212; 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