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Ambulance Driver Charged With Drunken Driving After Hitting Boy

By CHRISTOPHER FAHERTY, Staff Reporter of the Sun | November 21, 2007

Police arrested an ambulance driver on charges of driving while intoxicated after the drive hit a young boy who was crossing the street in the Gramercy Park section of Manhattan, police officials said.

The victim, who was crossing 20th Street from between parked cars, was hit at about 3 p.m. Police said he is likely to die,

The suspect is not likely to face criminal charges if the boy dies, a police source said.


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NO Charges, you're kidding, the lights and siren do not protect him. He is still liable under the law.

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Bill Dikant 

Nov 21, 2007 05:55

I don't think he was actually driving the ambulance at the time of the incident.......and the term is not ambulance... [MORE]

Andrew Gardner 

Nov 28, 2007 09:06

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