LAFD Ambulance Crashes While Carrying Crash Patient, Crash Investigator Responds and Crashes in Same Intersection

Los Angeles emergency services were left red-faced on Wednesday after a double-incident in the San Fernando Valley saw, not one, but two fire department vehicles collide at the same intersection in less an hour.

The first crash came at 9:06 a.m. (PT) in Reseda, when an LAFD rescue ambulance, already carrying a patient from an earlier car wreck, struck a light gray sedan at an intersection.

But as police and fire officials moved to untangle the wreckage, the morning took another turn. At 9:46 a.m., a battalion chief dispatched to investigate the accident arrived at the very same intersection, only to collide with another vehicle.

A department spokesperson told the Los Angeles Times that “no Fire Department personnel were injured in either collision.”

Officials added that the sole injury across the spate of incidents was the ambulance patient, who suffered only minor injuries despite being caught in two accidents in quick succession.

“Authorities have yet to determine the causes of the back-to-back collisions,” an LAPD spokesperson said.

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