The parents of a Utah woman who died following a wrong-way crash in 2021 have filed a lawsuit claiming an overdose from emergency workers killed her and not injuries sustained in the crash.
Robertson pleaded guilty in August to murder and several other charges.But Doner's parents say their daughter did not sustain fatal injuries in the crash.
The lawsuit lists several defendants, including Intermountain Health, Life Flight, the Murray Fire Department, Unified Fire Authority, Utah Highway Patrol, Gold Cross Ambulance and several individual EMS, paramedic and Life Flight workers and doctors at the hospital. According to the lawsuit, there is video evidence of the accidental overdose of ketamine, including from body cameras, a helmet camera and dashboard camera. The videos allegedly show that after Doner is injected with the drug — which can be used as a general anesthetic — she is seen "immediately falling into silence and slipping into respiratory arrest; and then a host of EMS providers fumbling about and slow-walking, unable and unprepared to ventilate Gwen while her brain died from anoxia.
In a prepared statement to KSL.com, Intermountain Health spokesman Jess Gomez said, "At this time, due to pending litigation and federal laws that protect sensitive patient health information , we're unable to address details of this situation or respond to specific questions. We can say, however, that we're always committed to providing the safest and highest quality of care possible for all of our patients.
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