Two EMTs were taken to the hospital after their ambulance struck a van during an emergency run on Tuesday afternoon, according to Metro Emergency Medical Services and MetroSafe Communications.
The Louisville metro ambulance was on an emergency run with its lights and sirens on, said Kristen Miller, Metro EMS chief of staff. No patient was in the back at the time.
The accident happened just before 2 p.m. near the intersection of Frankfort Avenue and Oxford Place, said a MetroSafe Communications supervisor.
As the ambulance was trying to get around traffic, a vehicle tried to turn left and pulled in front of it, Miller said. The ambulance struck the vehicle, which MetroSafe reported was a van.
Two crew members in the ambulance were transported to Baptist Hospital East with minor injuries, Miller said. One person in the van was treated at the scene and declined to be transported to a hospital.
The emergency call to which the ambulance was responding was dispatched to another unit, Miller said.
