ALS UNIT CRASH
WASHINGTON
TOWNSHIP (Mercer County)
--- Two paramedics and a Hightstown man where injured when a paramedic unit
responding to a medical emergency in a neighboring town collided with a car on
Monday, May 15, 2000.
The
accident occurred at about 4:10 p.m. at Sharon and Gordon roads when the Capital
Health System paramedic vehicle, traveling on Gordon Road en route to a diabetic
emergency in Upper Freehold Township, failed to stop at a stop sign and collided
with a car traveling on Sharon Road, according to police.
The
collision forced the car up against a utility pole, trapping the driver, a
43-year-old Hightstown man, police said.
Firefighters
from Washington Fire Department (Station 40) cut off the driver’s door to free
the man, who was taken by ambulance to Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital
at Hamilton, treated for neck and back injuries and then released, police and
hospital officials said.
The
driver of the paramedic unit and his partner both suffered neck and back
injuries and were taken to Capital Health System at Fuld hospital, police said.
Both were treated and released.
The
accident is under investigation by Officer Anthony DeAngelo.
