Derek Achong

Two peo­ple re­main hos­pi­talised af­ter an am­bu­lance trans­port­ing a pa­tient was in­volved in a se­ri­ous ac­ci­dent along the Pri­or­i­ty Bus Route (PBR) in Arou­ca yes­ter­day.

Ac­cord­ing to po­lice re­ports, around 1.30 pm, the Glob­al Med­ical Re­sponse (GMR) am­bu­lance was dri­ving east along the Pri­or­i­ty Bus Route (PBR) when it col­lid­ed with a Hon­da Civic at the in­ter­sec­tion with Ba­ca­day Road near to Bon Air Gar­dens, Arou­ca.

The am­bu­lance flipped on its side up­on im­pact, trap­ping the two para­medics and the pa­tient, who was be­ing trans­port­ed to the Ari­ma Dis­trict Hos­pi­tal. Po­lice ar­rived on the scene soon af­ter and as­sist­ed in re­mov­ing the para­medics, the pa­tient and the oth­er dri­ver from the wreck­age of their ve­hi­cles.

An­oth­er am­bu­lance was sum­moned to the scene to take the pa­tient and the oth­er dri­ver to hos­pi­tal for treat­ment.

Po­lice said the dri­ver and pa­tient sus­tained non-life-threat­en­ing in­juries, with the pa­tient be­ing sta­bilised up­on ar­rival at hos­pi­tal. The two para­medics sus­tained mi­nor in­juries and were treat­ed on the scene.

In­ves­ti­ga­tors be­lieve that the dri­ver of the next ve­hi­cle pos­si­bly did not slow at the in­ter­sec­tion up­on hear­ing the am­bu­lance's siren.

In­sp Birch of the North­ern Di­vi­sion is con­tin­u­ing in­ves­ti­ga­tions.