History Main / DeathByAmbulance

* Some abilities in ''VideoGame/NexusWar'' games allow players to ''[[AbnormalAmmo throw]]'' ambulances, among other vehicles. In the first game, this was a purely [[HolyHandGrenade Angelic]] power, but the sequel expanded it to all three moral sides.

** The ambulance has a tendency to run ''you'' over if you stand too close to a wounded pedestrian. The first couple of times this happens you chalk it up to coincidence, but eventually you get the feeling it's driven by LaserGuidedKarma. Of course, none of this is a patch on [[VideogameCrueltyPotential the carnage that can result]] if you're behind the ambulance's wheel yourself..

** In an [[CrossesTheLineTwice especially cruel variant]], "The Advise" has Banana Joe's gurney roll down a flight of steps ''into'' an ambulance, but then it keeps rolling through the windshield, plopping Joe in front of it as it drives off, siren blazing.

* PlayedForDrama in season 4 of ''Series/LondonsBurning'' after a collision between a fire engine and a car that left one civilian badly injured and resulted in Sicknote facing serious criminal charges. [[spoiler: He's ultimately acquitted.]]

** In "The Mystery", Principal Brown [[TheDoorSlamsYou opens a door into Ms. Simian]], knocking her out the window, whereupon she is slowly run over by the ambulance that was called for her. This is actually a ''[[ShoutOut shout out]]'' to ''Manga/JojosBizarreAdventureDiamondIsUnbreakable''. ([[LaserGuidedKarma which is the same thing she caused to happen to Brown]], but with a school bus).

* The WidgetSeries ''VideoGame/ZombiesVsTheAmbulance'' kind of zig-zags this trope, as you do use the ambulance to run down zombies, but you can also rescue people who haven't quite passed over into un-death.

* ''{{TabletopGame/Cyberpunk}}'': A common fate for anyone who gets inbetween one of Trauma Team's or REO Meatwagon's paramedic services and a policy holder in need of medical aid. Being a cyberpunk dystopia, medical care is big business in this setting. Both companies pride themselves on being able to extract injured policy holders from areas police and corpsec are afraid to go, and their ambulances and staff are heavily armed and armored. That said, they will ''only'' aid those with insanely expensive insurance policies, and will not hesitate to run or gun down anyone between them and their target.

* ''{{VideoGame/Cyberpunk2077}}'': Invoked, as part of the CrapsackWorld. Trauma Team is one of the world's best paramedic services, and they pride themselves on being able to extract their policy holders from anywhere on the planet. To this end, their paramedics are all ex-special forces and equipped with cutting-edge weapons and armor. However, Trauma Team is a business; they ''only'' provide services to people with service contracts, and they will run or gun down anyone who stands between them and a policy holder without a second thought.

* Creator/MichaelBentine describes how, in the winter of 1939-40, he was part of an emergency exercise, simulating the results of a German attack on Folkestone, Kent, to assess how quickly the emergency services could locate and evacuate casualties. he describes loading a "casualty" onto a stretcher and then a gurney, rehearsing how to get an injured person into an ambulance correctly. Loading the gurney went without a hitch. Bentine closed the rear doors, ten banged on the side of the cab as a signal for the driver to start up. Unfortunately he had not put the brakes on the gurney wheels, nor had he secured the back doors. The trolley rolled back down the ambulance, its weight burst the doors open, and it sprang out of the back, rolling down a sloping road and finally coming to rest - hard - against a statue of one of Folkestone's famous sons, pioneering doctor William Harvey. The simulated casualty then became a real one, with bruises and concussion.

* The possibility of this was raised following the crash of Asiana Flight 214 in San Francisco, when a victim who had been ejected from the aircraft during the crash sequence was run over by an emergency vehicle. {{Subverted|Trope}} when investigators later determined that the victim was already dead before she was run over, having likely died on impact when she was ejected.

* The possibility of this was raised following the crash of Asiana Flight 214 in San Francisco, when a victim who had been ejected from the aircraft during the crash sequence was run over by an emergency vehicle. Ultimately {{Subverted|Trope}}, as investigators later determined that the victim was already dead before she was run over, having likely died on impact when she was ejected.

* The possibility of this was raised following the crash of Asiana Flight 214 in San Francisco, when a victim who had been ejected from the aircraft during the crash sequence was run over by an emergency vehicle. However, investigators later determined that the victim was already dead before she was run over, having likely died on impact when she was ejected.

* ''VisualNovel/DanganronpaTriggerHappyHavoc'' used a slight variation for Celestia Ludenberg's execution: it's not an ambulance that runs her over, but a fire truck. However, the spirit of the trope is very much in effect, since the fire truck arrived to extinguish the massive bonfire that was about to engulf her.

* On the climax of the final battle of ''Manga/JojosBizarreAdventureDiamondIsUnbreakable'', Jotaro stops time and crushes Yoshikage Kira's arms and hands with punches to keep him from activating his time-resetting ability. When time resumes, Kira falls on the path of an ambulance and gets his head crushed (the anime arguably makes it worse by showing his head being rotated 180° before [[GoryDiscretionShot cutting away]]). Note that he often boasted that [[BornLucky fate was on his side.]]

** In "The Mystery", Principal Brown [[DoorSlamsYou opens a door into Ms. Simian]], knocking her out the window, whereupon she is slowly run over by the ambulance that was called for her. This is actually a ''[[ShoutOut shout out]]'' to ''Manga/JojosBizarreAdventureDiamondIsUnbreakable''. ([[LaserGuidedKarma which is the same thing she caused to happen to Brown]], but with a school bus).

** In "The Mystery", Principal Brown [[DoorSlamsYou opens a door into Ms. Simian]], knocking her out the window, whereupon she is slowly run over by the ambulance that was called for her ([[LaserGuidedKarma which is the same thing she caused to happen to Brown]], but with a school bus).

* The possibility of this was raised following the crash of Asiana Flight 214 in San Francisco, when a victim who had been ejected from the aircraft during the crash sequence was run over by an emergency vehicle. However, investigators later determined that the victim was already dead before she was run over.

[[caption-width-right:350:[[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureDiamondIsUnbreakable She just wanted a quiet life.]] [[http://nickkoudis.com/blog/ambulance/index.html Photograph by Nick Koudis]]]]

[[caption-width-right:350:[[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure She just wanted a quiet life.]] [[http://nickkoudis.com/blog/ambulance/index.html Photograph by Nick Koudis]]]]

[[caption-width-right:350: [[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure She just wanted a quiet life.]] [[http://nickkoudis.com/blog/ambulance/index.html Photography by Nick Koudis]]]]

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* ''VisualNovel/DanganRonpa'' used a slight variation for Celestia Ludenberg's execution: it's not an ambulance that runs her over, but a fire truck. However, the spirit of the trope is very much in effect, since the fire truck arrived to extinguish the massive bonfire that was about to engulf her.

* An ambulance is used to abduct people and steal their organs in the 1990 thriller ''The Ambulance''. The same scenario takes place in the 1979 German film ''Fleisch'' (Meat).