ALBANY, Ga. (WALB) — Nearly a year after a Dougherty County EMS ambulance rolled over and injured eight people, including a newborn baby, the EMT who helped deliver the baby says the crash was a miracle— and his legal battle and recovery that followed were a blessing in disguise. Ashton Holloway, now 29, was riding in the back of the ambulance on Sept. 6, 2025, his first day on the job, when the vehicle crashed and rolled at the intersection of Pine Avenue and Monroe Street while transporting a woman in active labor to the hospital. Holloway said he suffered eight compression fractures, five broken ribs, and a collapsed lung. All eight people involved in the three-vehicle crash were taken to Phoebe Main with non-life-threatening injuries. “First day on the job, first call, first time I’ve ever had a part of delivering a newborn,” Holloway said. Holloway said his own legal case against Dougherty County was settled in March of 2026, which he said is the reason he’s now able to speak publicly about the crash. Holloway graduated EMT school in May of 2025 and started working in Dougherty County in September. The day of the crash, crews responded to a woman in active labor in Albany. When they didn’t see signs of an imminent birth, Holloway said they loaded her into the ambulance for a standard transport. But during the drive, the mother’s contractions accelerated and she gave birth in the back of the moving ambulance. “This is so surreal,” Holloway remembered about the newborn…
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