LYNDHURST, N.J. (AP) - Five people were hospitalized after a car collided with an ambulance responding to an emergency call, setting off a chain-reaction crash that involved two other vehicles.
Lyndhurst police tell The Record (https://bit.ly/1lWswgB) that the crash occurred around 12:45 p.m. Monday.
The ambulance was responding to an auto accident call when the initial collision occurred. The ambulance then rolled over another car that was stopped at a nearby intersection before landing on top of a parked car.
Two emergency medical technicians who were in the ambulance and the 25-year-old driver of the car that allegedly hit their vehicle were taken to hospitals with undisclosed injuries, along with a 90-year-old woman and a 60-year-old man who were in the car the ambulance rolled over.
The cause of the accident remains under investigation.
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Information from: The Record (Woodland Park, N.J.), https://www.northjersey.com
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