The collision of a Carthage Area Rescue Squad ambulance and a Jeep on Route 232 injured at least one emergency medical technician, and seven people overall, at 3:45 p.m. Friday.
The Jeep, pulling two personal watercraft on a trailer, was ahead of the ambulance heading west on Route 232 and began signaling a left-hand turn onto County Route 64, also known as Falls Road.
The driver of the ambulance, which was carrying a woman with a heart condition to a Syracuse hospital, did not see the signal, Jefferson County sheriff’s deputies said.
The ambulance, which had its emergency lights on, and the Jeep ended up in the southwest corner of the intersection, which is near an overpass of Interstate 81.
Jefferson County sheriff’s deputies said the two occupants of the Jeep, both of whom suffered minor injuries, were being treated at an area hospital, as were four of the five ambulance occupants.
Those involved in the accident were taken either to Samaritan Medical Center, Watertown, or Carthage Area Hospital, Carthage. The heart patient was taken by the town of Watertown Ambulance Squad to Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, according to the Sheriff’s Department.
The Jeep is registered to Thomas King, Frenchtown, N.J.
Additional details, including names of those involved in the accident, were not released late Friday.
The investigation is continuing.
