Bennett v. Putnam County

OPINION

CRAWFORD, P.J.,

W.S., delivered the opinion of the court,

in which HIGHERS, J. and FARMER, J., joined.

This appeal arises from a collision involving a Putnam County ambulance parked at the site of a previous automobile accident. Plaintiff, a bystander who stopped to assist the motorist in the original accident, was severely injured when he was pinned between the parked ambulance and an approaching vehicle. Plaintiff filed suit against the County, alleging that the paramedics who responded to the original accident were negligent in their placement of the ambulance and in failing to control…