FORT LAUDERDALE, FLA. (WSVN) - A paramedic had to be taken to the hospital after a car reportedly ran a red light and collided into a rescue truck.
Fort Lauderdale Police and Fort Lauderdale Fire Rescue units were dispatched to the area of Davie Boulevard and South Andrews Avenue in Fort Lauderdale, Friday afternoon, after reports of a traffic crash involving a rescue truck.
The truck sustained minor damage.
One of the paramedics in the rescue truck was taken to the hospital after experiencing neck and low back pain.
The ambulance was en route to the hospital with another patient.
The driver said he was unable to see the ambulance while attempting to make a left turn and had his blinker on when he struck the truck.
“How can you come straight across like that when you got a turn lane?” said Raymond, the driver of the SUV, “and you got trucks where you can’t see … coming from west going east. You can see the turning lane, this last lane, so when I turned it just –out of nowhere.”
Another rescue truck came to take the paramedic and the patient to the hospital.
The paramedic is expected to be OK.
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