ROYAL OAK TWP. (WWJ) – An investigation is ongoing after an ambulance carrying a patient t-boned a car in Royal Oak Township Saturday evening.
The crash happened around 7:20 p.m. at the intersection of 8 Mile and Wyoming, according to Michigan State Police.
A Superior ambulance was transporting a trauma patient with lights and sirens activated, heading west on 8 Mile when it failed to yield the right of way to a red BMW sedan headed north on Wyoming. Officials said the sedan had the green light.
The ambulance slammed into the passenger side of the BMW then overturned and slid, coming to a rest on its driver’s side.
The driver of the red BMW sustained possible minor internal injuries following the crash, according to MSP.
The ambulance was occupied by two paramedics, an EMS student, and a trauma patient. The two EMTs were uninjured, and the EMS student sustained possible minor internal injuries.
The trauma patient with a pre-existing head injury, was trapped inside the rig and actively bleeding from the prior injury. Troopers rendered first aid by jumping into the ambulance, holding c-spine, and administering trauma gauze to control bleeding until another ambulance arrived to take them to the hospital.
The patient’s condition was not known Sunday morning.
Troopers were on a traffic stop at 8 Mile and Wyoming at the time of the ambulance crash and were on scene “seconds after it occurred,” MSP officials said.
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