Ambulance shields man, rolling pickup

A rescue crew used their ambulance as a shield to prevent a man from being run over by an unoccupied pickup truck, authorities said.

Pasco County Fire Rescue paramedic William Bomboy and emergency medical technician Christopher Linchy saw a truck and a van collided late Tuesday.

The driver of the truck, 44-year-old Randy Rogers, was thrown into the road in front of his still rolling pickup truck. Linchy saw the scene unfolding in his rearview mirror. He whipped around in a quick U-turn and steered the ambulance between the truck and injured man. The idling pickup rolled into the ambulance's driver's side door, grinding against it until police arrived and shut it off.

"This was just a split-second decision," Linchy told the St. Petersburg Times. Rogers is recovering from his injuries in an area hospital. Article here.