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5 hurt, including 2 EMTs, when NJ ambulance flips onto parked car

Cellphone video of the accident shows firefighters and paramedics tending to those injured

LYNDHURST, N.J. — Five people were hurt around 1 p.m. Monday when a car broadsided an ambulance responding to another accident, and the force caused it to rollover onto its side and land on top of a parked car, CBS New York reports.

A third vehicle waiting at a traffic light was also hit by the car.

Two Town of Lyndhurst EMTs were injured, as well as the 25-year-old driver of the car that struck the ambulance, and a 60-year-old and 90-year-old in the car at the light. They were all taken to Hackensack University Medical Center, and official say they suffered non-life-threatening injuries.

A cellphone video captured the accident, and shows firefighters and paramedics tending to the five people injured.