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Two P.E.I. Paramedics and Their Patient Killed in New Brunswick Crash

The deaths prompted neighbouring provinces to deploy crews, volunteers and mutual aid to maintain Island EMS coverage during an active RCMP investigation.

Jenna Croucher and her father Robin Croucher, education minister of PEI, are shown in this handout photo. Jenna Croucher, a paramedic in Prince Edward Island, died when the ambulance she was in collided with a transport truck on July 7, 2026. THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO-Robin Croucher
Paramedics line up along Route 111 outside Saint John, N.B., Friday as a procession carrying the bodies of Prince Edward Island paramedics Mike MacKenzie and Jenna Croucher started its journey to deliver the pair back to their home province. MacKenzie and Croucher died Tuesday in a collision that involved their ambulance in Melrose, N.B.
The general manager of Island EMS said it is grieving the loss of two paramedics and a patient in their care. Logan MacLean
The flags are at half-staff at Island EMS offices on Sherwood Road in Charlottetown after the death of two P.E.I. paramedics and their patient occurred during a head-on collision in New Brunswick July 7. Logan MacLean

Overview

  • An Island EMS ambulance and a transport truck collided head‑on in Melrose, New Brunswick, on Tuesday, July 7, killing two paramedics and the patient they were transporting.
  • Island EMS confirmed the deaths of driver Mike MacKenzie and paramedic Jenna Croucher and identified the patient as Anne Martell, and several outlets are withholding a young paramedic’s name at her family’s request.
  • Codiac Regional RCMP said coroners and reconstruction experts are on site and the truck driver was taken to hospital with injuries that police say are not believed to be life‑threatening.
  • Island EMS and parent Medavie say their priority is supporting bereaved families and staff, a procession began July 10 to return the paramedics to P.E.I., and flags at EMS offices have been lowered to half‑staff.
  • Operationally, New Brunswick and Nova Scotia teams provided immediate coverage and more than 100 New Brunswick paramedics have volunteered to backfill P.E.I. shifts, a response that will allow Island crews time to grieve while authorities complete the investigation.