A TRANSPORT AMBULANCE CARRYING A DIALYSIS PATIENT collided with car at a Brockton, Massachusetts, intersection Friday morning. The crash sent the ambulance into the corner of a store causing sustantial damage.
The accident happened around 6 am this morning. The drivers of the two vehicles were uninjured, but the patient and one other undentified passenger had minor injuries.
WFXT-TV has file this raw video taken from their news helicopter:
AN 18-YR.-OLD WOMAN WAS KILLED SUNDAY AND three other people seriously injured in Jacksonville, Florida, when an ambulance collided with a pickup truck. WJXT-TV is reporting:
The Florida Highway Patrol said a (Liberty Ambulance) turned left into the path of a northbound pickup truck about 8:30 p.m. on Philips Highway just south of the intersection with Interstate 95.
First Coast News
Megan Bunn, of St. Augustine, was a passenger in the Chevrolet Silverado and died at the scene. The driver of the pickup, Michael Linder, was transported to Shands-Jacksonville Medical Center in critical condition. Troopers said neither was wearing seat belts. The Florida Highway Patrol said a private ambulance turned left into the path of a northbound pickup truck about 8:30 p.m. on Philips Highway just south of the intersection with Interstate 95.
The two EMT’s were also hospitalized with serious injuries. The Florida Highway Patrol has not yet disclosed whether the ambulance had its emergency lights and siren activated. There was no patient in the ambulance.
WJXT-TV
Updated information and new photos added. Scroll down.
Update #2, video added.
TWO FDNY APPARATUS, ENGINE 236 AND LADDER 107 collided at an intersection in Brooklyn shortly after 9:30 this morning. Both of them were responding to an emergency.
The New York Post reported 45 minutes after the crash:
Ladder 107, which was heading north on Ashford, flipped on to its side. Its back end landed on a minivan parked on the street and its front end jammed into a tree, witnesses said. The other rig sped into the front lawn of a nearby home.
WABC-TV
“I heard one firefighter yelling, ahhhh,” said witness Everton Brown. “After [the ladder truck] flipped, the one standing on the back flew off the truck and landed on his face. He walked back and sat on the other truck. Then guys from both trucks got out and started to help.”
Two firemen were trapped inside Ladder 107’s truck – one was cut out and removed on a stretcher. The other is still inside.
The Fire Department said there are 12 injuries all together, four serious and eight minor. No civilians were hurt. The firefighters were taken to three local hospitals with unspecific injuries, authorities said.
WNYW-TV Ch. 5 filed this video report:
Update, 6:00 pm:
So far, the only information released about the crash by the FD says that Ladder 107 was in the intersection when Engine 236 struck it near the rear of the truck, effectively knocking it over and then skidding into a tree crushing the cab. The driver of the Ladder was entrapped for two hours before he was freed.
New York Post photo
Both units were responding to the same call, a report of a gas leak near the accident site.
The engine ended up in a front yard. (NY Post)
NY Post
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