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Published by WLEX-TV on May 15

Survivor of ambulance crash lost brother in 1992 ambulance wreck

WLEX-TV

WEST LIBERTY — The sole survivor of Tuesday's triple fatal ambulance crash lost a brother in a quadruple fatal ambulance crash in 1992. EMT Charlie Vanderpool is in serious condition at UK Hospital.

His fiancee, 26-year-old Sandy Shepherd, was killed in the crash.  Shepherd was an emergency medical technician.  Her patient, 83-year-old Nell Crigger, was also killed.  
     
Police say the ambulance was struck by a truck driven by 29-year old Brian Gilvin of Mount Sterling.  Gilvin was also killed in the crash.
     
In 1992, Vanderpool's brother Johnnie died when the ambulance he was working in was hit by a coal truck head-on in Johnson County.  Three others were killed in that crash.  Both Johnnie and Charlie were employees of G&B Ambulance Service.

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