NGMC ambulance involved in fatal traffic accident

A man who was helping his grandson with his disabled card on a road in Oconee County was killed when the car was struck by a Northeast Georgia Medical Center (NGMC) ambulance.

The state patrol says the grandson and his grandfather were both trapped underneath the ambulance. The accident happened about 10:00 Sunday night.

John Martin of Monroe died at the scene. The younger victim, student at Winder-Barrow High School, was taken to Arthur Blank Children’s Hospital in Atlanta, where he was in stable condition at last report.

Reached late Tuesday afternoon for comment, a spokesman for the medical center said: “I’m checking on this for you, but likely won’t have any answers until tomorrow morning.”