By Deborah Marko
VINELAND — Six people, including a 4-year-old child, were injured Tuesday afternoon when an ambulance and a Honda Accord collided at Delsea Drive and Sherman Avenue.
A Belleplain Emergency Corps ambulance crew was on a non-emergency transport to the nearby South Jersey Healthcare Regional Medical Center when the crash occurred just after 2 p.m., said William King, the corps’ assistant chief, who responded to the scene.
The two ambulance workers on board as well as their patient were taken to the hospital, King said, noting their injuries did not appear to be life-threatening.
The child and two other people in the Accord also were taken to the medical center. The child was later transferred to Cooper University Hospital in Camden, according to rescuers.
The emergency call initially came in as involving entrapment, but firefighters who responded to the scene said everyone was able to get out of the vehicles without their assistance.
The ambulance sustained damage to the front driver’s side, while the front of the Accord crumbled from the impact.
Drivers on Sherman Avenue were detoured by police. Traffic on Delsea Drive slowed to a crawl while police waited for tow trucks to remove the damaged vehicles.
The crash was under investigation by the police Tuesday evening.
Even with the turn lanes and the traffic lights, the intersection remains a dangerous one, said Jack Walker. The retired A-Estates employee was visiting his old office at the intersection Tuesday.
When he was a kid, Walker said, you could walk across Sherman Avenue without looking — but those days are long gone with more drivers on the road.
