ST. PETERSBURG, FL -- A man was run over by a St. Petersburg Fire Rescue truck Thursday as it was pulling out of its driveway, responding to a 911 call about the same man.
Someone called 911 to report a man who was bleeding from the face in front of Fire Rescue Headquarters, officials said. He was identified as 41-year-old Ted Lenox, who is a homeless man known to frequent the downtown area.
A few minutes after that call he turned up a block away at Fire Headquarters at 400 Martin Luther King Street South.
According to a witness who also called 911, Lenox laid down in the driveway of the fire station, while the bay doors were still closed. Fire Rescue 5 began to pull out of the station, and Lenox got caught in the truck's undercarriage, officials said.
The EMT and the paramedic who were riding in the truck felt the bump as the truck ran over Lenox's legs, officials said.
He was extricated from under the truck and then taken to Bayfront Medical Center. The paramedics who accidentally ran over Lenox were responding to the 1st 911 call about him, officials said.
Investigators said there was no way that the paramedics could have seen Lenox based on the position he had put himself in. They said he might have been drinking and in fact might have called 911 on himself.
Lenox is in critical condition at Bayfront Medical Center.
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