Ambulance Crash In Western NY Kills 77-Year-Old Passenger

DUNKIRK, N.Y. (AP) — Authorities say a 77-year-old western New York man has died after the ambulance transporting him from a Pennsylvania hospital to a nursing home crashed into a ditch.

New York State Police say an EmergyCare ambulance traveling east on state Route 5 around 5:40 p.m. Tuesday left the road, entered a ditch and hit a culvert in the Chautauqua (shuh-TAW'-kwuh) County town of Dunkirk, 35 miles southwest of Buffalo.

Troopers say the ambulance was taking Arthur McArthur, of Dunkirk, from the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center in Erie to a nursing home in Chautauqua County. Police say McArthur suffered fatal injuries in the crash and was pronounced dead at the scene.

The ambulance's 49-year-old driver was treated at a local hospital for non-life-threatening injuries.

The crash is under investigation.