Tofino paramedics Jo-Ann Fuller, 59, and Ivan Polivka, 65, were driving back to their base in Tofino from Port Alberni on Oct. 19, 2010 after dropping a patient at West Coast General Hospital when the crash occurred
A memorial honouring two veteran paramedics who died when their ambulance veered off the road and plunged down a cliff into Kennedy Lake in 2010 will be unveiled Thursday.
People from B.C. Emergency Health Services and the Ambulance Paramedics of B.C. will gather at the Kennedy Lake Rest Area to dedicate a memorial marker.A coroner’s report four years later concluded Fuller likely fell asleep at the wheel while driving along the twisting road. Just before 5:30 a.m. the ambulance jumped a 37-centimetre concrete barrier and plunged down a 33-metre cliff into 10-metres of water.
Fuller, found in the driver’s seat with her seatbelt on, drowned, while Polivka, sleeping unrestrained on a patient gurney in the back of the ambulance, died of blunt-force trauma to his chest and head. After the crash, the province increased the height of the concrete barrier at the site of the crash and made other road improvements, while the ambulance service implemented new policies for rest times.
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