ambulances firegeezer on 31 Oct 2008 05:32 pm
8 Injured In Chicago Ambulance Crash
EIGHT PEOPLE, INCLUDING TWO FIREFIGHTER/EMT’s, WERE INJURED Friday morning when an ambulance collided with a car at a downtown intersection.
Pioneer Press photo
The Chicago Fire Department ambulance was carrying two patients to a hospital when it collided with a car causing the car to roll over. A second car then struck the first one broadside and a third car rear-ended the second one.
The driver of the first car that flipped and her two children were transported with serious injuries. The two ambulance patients are in fair condition and the two FF’s sufferd minor injuries. The driver of car #2 was also transported with non-life threatening injuries.
The official cause of the accident has not been determined, but witnesses say the car entered the intersection into the path of the ambulance.
The Pioneer Press has the latest REPORT.
