Ambulance flips onto vehicle

The ambulance was T-boned by a vehicle which ran a red light

June 10, 2016 07:58 AM

Private ambulance flipped onto an SUV after it was T-boned in an intersection

By Beatriz Alvarado
Corpus Christi Caller-Times, Texas

CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas — Eight people were injured after a car slammed into a private ambulance, causing it to flip onto an SUV, police said.

Emergency responders were called to the intersection of Morgan Avenue and Santa Fe Street about 2:30 p.m. Thursday for the wreck. A 69-year-old man in a white Toyota Camry ran a red light while driving south on Santa Fe, Corpus Christi Lt. Timothy Frazier said. The ambulance, which had three passengers including a patient, was struck and flipped onto an SUV stopped at a red light.

“It was terrifying,” the 42-year-old driver of the SUV, Jennifer Scarrow said. She said her 7-year-old daughter was taken to the hospital because she was cut by glass, but herself, her husband and her mother sustained no major injuries.

Frazier said of the seven people involved in the wreck, nobody sustained major injuries. The ambulance was conducting a hospital transfer when it was struck.

Frazier said the man will face a charge of disregarding a red light.

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