Published March 11 by the Associated Press

Teen killed when ambulance, car collide

Associated Press

MACEO — An Indiana teen-ager died when an ambulance crossed into his lane and hit the car he was driving head-on early Sunday, police said.

John Poole, 17, of Cannelton, Ind. was driving eastbound on U.S. 60, four miles east Maceo in Daviess County about 1:25 a.m. CST, a state police report said.

Chad Cook, 22, was driving an ambulance westbound on U.S. 60 to Owensboro Mercy Health System, when he crossed the center line and hit Poole's vehicle, police said.

The ambulance overturned and came to rest in the road, police said.

Poole and the four occupants of the ambulance were all transported to Owensboro Mercy Health. Poole was pronounced dead at 11:45 a.m. CST at the hospital from multiple blunt force trauma, said Daviess County Coroner Bob Howe.

Only one of the four occupants of the ambulance -- Charles Coker, Jr., 37, of Hardinsburg -- was still in the hospital Sunday night, a hospital spokesman said. Coker's condition was not available, the spokesman said.

It was not immediately clear why the ambulance crossed the center line, the police report said.

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