EMT Sandy Bailey Shepherd

EMT Shepherd and her partner, Charles Vanderpool, were conducting a routine patient transport from a nursing home to a medical appointment in Lexington. A motorist who was fleeing from police crossed over the median and struck the ambulance head-on.

The patient in the ambulance and the driver of the other vehicle were pronounced dead at the scene. EMT Shepherd was transported and pronounced dead at the University of Kentucky Medical Center.

Mr. Vanderpool, the driver of the ambulance, was critically injured but survived. His brother, EMT Johnnie Vanderpool, was killed in an ambulance crash nine years earlier.