CANTON ‒ Firefighters had to remove the windshield of an ambulance owned by a Zanesville company to extract the driver after the vehicle overturned Wednesday morning on Interstate 77 following a collision with a car.
Division Chief Steven Henderson said the fire department was called at 7:25 a.m. about the collision in the northbound lanes just north of the Tuscarawas Street W overpass.
Battalion Chief Eric Ohman said the driver was able to stand afterward and taken to Aultman Hospital for treatment of minor injuries. The ambulance had no patient or other passengers.
Canton police said the ambulance driver is a 59-year-old man from Licking County, and the driver of a passenger car that was involved is a 41-year-old Canton woman. Ohman said she was not injured.
The ambulance, a 2017 Ford, is owned by ValueCare Ambulance Service of Zanesville. The passenger car is a 2003 Cadillac CTS.
Canton police spokesman Lt. Dennis Garren said the crash remains under investigation. Police are trying to acquire video from the Ohio Department of Transportation.
The highway was closed for approximately an hour.
