Two U.S. Army Rangers hit by car
during training near Kaiserslautern
Staff and wire reports
KAISERSLAUTERN, Germany — Two U.S. Army Rangers were injured Monday when they were
hit by a car during a training exercise near St. Wendel, about 30 miles west of
Kaiserslautern.
The soldiers, assigned to 2nd Battalion, 75th Ranger Regiment, were crossing Highway
269 on foot at about 9:30 p.m. when the accident occurred, command spokeswoman Carol Darby
said. They were both wearing night-vision goggles.
One soldier, 1st Lt. Vincent C. Lai, 26, remained in stable condition at a German
hospital in Homberg on Tuesday, Darby said. Lai, of Diamond Bar, Calif., was a platoon
leader with Company C.
Spc. Patrick J. Coleman, 20, of Layton, Utah, was kept overnight in a German hospital
and released on Tuesday, Darby said. Coleman is a rifleman with the same company.
Medics and surgeons assigned to the ranger regiment, who also were participating in the
exercise, provided the initial on-scene emergency care. Both injured soldiers were first
taken to a hospital in St. Wendel. Lai was later flown by the 236th Medical Co., based out
of Landstuhl, to the Homberg hospital.
The driver, a German woman, was taken to Kreis-Krankenhouse in Ottweiler, where she was
treated and released.
The soldiers’ battalion is deployed to Germany from Fort Lewis, Wash., for a
training exercise with a German unit, the 26th Airborne Luftlande Brigade. The exercise,
which was delayed because of the accident, has resumed.
Darby said the Army is investigating the accident.
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