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> In 2009, there were 1,579 ambulance crash injuries (2), and most EMS vehicle crashes occur when driving with lights and siren (L&S) (3).

Is it just me or is this particular statistic useless without the total number of ambulance calls and/or the percentage of calls where that have driving with lights and siren?

The closest thing i can find is the Los Angeles Fire Department responds "to roughly 800 to 1,000 emergency medical calls each day."

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How many lives were saved due to Lights and sirens being on though ?

Less than 6.9%, according to the article.

How many babies were born due to alcohol consumption? Probably more than the amount of people killed.

In other words, such metrics are usually, but not always, orthogonal to the actual discussion as the choice is not between L&S on or L&S off. I would say that such comparisons are helpful for fully yes-or-no options, such as comparing the rate of vehicular fatalities between human-driven and machine-driven automobiles.

Isn't that what the paper is fighting for though, or or off ?

These accidents are likely happening in intersections where the emergency vehicle is running a red light and likely speeding. Take away the lights and sirens and accidents may go up assuming they are still running red lights.

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