By Tim Bryant
St. Louis Post-Dispatch (Missouri)
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Five people were hurt last night when a car struck the rear of an ambulance, pushing it on its nose and onto the front of an apartment building in Kirkwood.
The incident happened shortly after 11 p.m. on Manchester Road near Dickson Street when a Chevrolet Camaro struck the eastbound Abbott ambulance from the rear, said Larry Stone, an Abbott vice president.
The Camaro ran under the rear of the ambulance, causing it to pop onto its front and into the front of an apartment building. It came to rest on its front, leaning against the building. Three Abbott employees in the ambulance where hurt. Two were treated and released at St. John’s Mercy Medical Center in Creve Coeur. The third employee remained at the hospital for treatment of a shoulder injury and a broken arm, Stone said.
No patients were aboard the ambulance, which suffered total damage, Stone said.
Another Abbott ambulance took the Camaro’s occupants — a man and a woman — to St. Anthony’s Medical Center, said Stone, adding that police told him the woman had been driving.