The fire chief says there's no excuse for what happened. The tragedy began on a south Louisville street when a car backing out of this driveway accidentally ran over two-year-old Kelley Bach.

Louisville EMS Unit Med 12 was dispatched to pick up the critically injured child, and headed toward Kosair children's hospital on Interstate 65. But suddenly they stopped. Chief Frederick explained, "Enroute to the hospital, they basically ran out of fuel."

Med unit 12 was out of gas on the shoulder of I-65 with a frantic grandfather and a dying little girl inside. The crew radioed for help, "Go ahead. We're gonna need another Med unit on I-65, just a half a mile before Eastern Parkway. We're having vehicle problems and our truck is 10-80."

There was another ambulance not far away at the Watterson and I-65. Chief Frederick says it took 4 to 8 minutes for that EMS unit to pick up the child and take her to Kosair.

Kelley was pronounced dead at the hospital. But the County Coroner says in this case, getting the patient to the hospital earlier, wouldn't have helped.

County Coroner Greathouse said, "Nothing could really have saved this child. Uh, if she had been taken from the sidewalk to the emergency room immediately, the injuries to her head were so traumatic that they could do little for her in the emergency room."

But Chief Frederick says that doesn't excuse the Med 12 crews. There is a diesel fuel pump at their station. They are required to fill an ambulance tank, whenever it gets below three-quarters full. Three different shifts had time, but didn't fill the tank.

Chief Frederick said, " first of all, we apologize for the failure of the system. And tell that we're doing everything possible to not only look into our own policies to see if there's something we've done wrong, but also we're addressing this with the individuals involved."