Teenager killed in head-on crash with ambulance

6:00 p.m.

A teenager is dead and three Floyd County EMS workers had minor injuries after an early morning crash.

State Police say it happened around 3 a.m. on Saturday morning on Route 221 – about one mile south of Route 721. They say 18-year old Mitchell Gregory Hall of Floyd was parked on the side of the road in his 1992 Ford Ranger pick-up truck.

They say Hall pulled back onto 221 and then hit the ambulance head on.

Rescue Squad officials say the ambulance was on its way back to the Indian Valley station after taking a patient to the NRV Medical Center in Radford. Therefore, there were no patients on board and the ambulance was not headed out on a call.

On Saturday, friends of Hall say what they’ll remember most about Hall, which can easily be seen in a candid photo from the Floyd County High School yearbook.

“His happy smile. He was always smiling and cutting up jokes, always in his boots and hat,” said Kathy Nolen, a family friend.

Don Johnson is the Vice President of the Floyd County Rescue Squad and says the ambulance was not speeding.  He adds all three people in the ambulance were not seriously hurt and were wearing their seat belts.

But police say Hall was not buckled in.

Johnson thinks, despite the accident, his crew used their training.
   
“I will assume they got out and worked until other people arrived,” Johnson said.

Johnson thinks the ambulance is beyond repair.

Hall’s friends are missing what can’t be replaced, a senior in high school with a bright future.

“Mitchell loved math, and he was a talented carpenter. He could fix anything. He liked to work on his trucks, he loved Ford trucks,” remembered Nolen.

State Police say they’re still investigating the crash.

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1:57 p.m.

State Police say 18-year-old Mitchell Hall died early Saturday morning when his pick-up truck collided head-on with an ambulance.

It happened in Floyd County on U.S. 221.

Police say the people in the ambulance were not serioulsy hurt, but did require some medical attention.

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