A HOUSTON, TEXAS, AMBULANCE WAS STRUCK BY A DRUNK DRIVER early Thursday morning while transporting a patient.
KRIV-TV reports:
Witnesses told investigators that the driver of the Honda was traveling southbound on South Dairy Ashford Road at approximately 80 mph when an ambulance was leaving a shopping center with a pregnant woman inside the van [sic]. The woman, who was 8 months pregnant, was involved in another accident on Westheimer Road and was to be taken to West Houston Medical Center.
Investigators say the Honda driver saw the ambulance too late and the car slid and struck the side of the ambulance….
KHOU-TV has filed some raw video from the accident scene:
(stick with it, some shots of the amb. show up near the end)
The police say that the driver of the car was highly intoxicated, unable to stand up, failed a field sobriety exam and refused to finish taking the exam. He was arrested.
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