An advanced emergency medical technician who was injured in an April 14 wreck when the ambulance he was in collided with a pickup truck and overturned is recovering at home, according to a post on his Facebook page.

Zach Langford, a Priority Ambulance Service AEMT, extended his gratitude to those who have prayed and supported him in his recovery.

“We’ve got a long road ahead, but we’ll get there,” the post said.

Winchester police reports said that officers were dispatched at 8:24 a.m. on April 14 to the U.S. Highway 64-State Route 16 intersection in response to a wreck with injuries involving an ambulance.

The ambulance was transporting an injured patient from an earlier wreck near Huntland when it was struck on the driver’s side by a Ram 3500 pickup that was attempting to cross the 64-16 intersection, reports said.

The ambulance flipped on its top and slid to where it came to rest in the Highway 64 median, reports said.

The Winchester Fire Department and Priority Ambulance Service provided medical assistance to the occupants of the ambulance, reports said.

Reports said the initial patient who was in the overturned ambulance was transported by another Priority Ambulance to Highpoint Health — Winchester with non-lifethreatening injuries.

Reports said an AEMT, later identified as Langford, was transported by the Life Force air-ambulance service to Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville with serious but non-life-threatening injuries.

An April 15 post on Langford’s Facebook page explained the extent of his injuries, which involved surgery on vertebrae in his neck.

“I had a very big surgery today to remove my C5 and place a cage in its spot in which they secured it with screws to C4 and C6,” the post said, referring to the surgical procedure.

He said doctors went through the front of his throat and shifted his airway to access it, which took about five hours.

“Surgery went great,” Langford said, adding that after he woke up, he was able to walk and move with minimal assistance and virtually no pain. “Only complication I have is a raspy voice which they say will heal within a week.

“The doctors, surgeons, nurses and all the teams have been great and are shocked I have no other issues, such as paralysis, tingling in the hands or feet from the injury. I praise the good lord for watching over me and protecting not only me but my partner and our patient during the accident.”

A subsequent post on April 17 said that Langford was at home recovering.