PITTSFIELD — A crash at the intersection of Valentine Road and Lakeway Drive on Friday afternoon flipped an ambulance that was transporting a patient, sending at least two people, including the patient, to Berkshire Medical Center.
Pittsfield Police Officer Marc Maddalena said a green Volvo station wagon traveling west on Lakeway Drive drove through a stop sign and broadsided a County Ambulance unit that was headed south on Valentine.
Members of the Pittsfield Fire Department removed the patient from the ambulance. The injured woman clutched a Teddy bear to her chest as she was loaded into a waiting ambulance and driven away from the scene.
A man wearing a County Ambulance uniform appeared to have suffered a leg injury. He was also transported from the scene.
The driver of the Volvo did not appear to be injured.
Maddalena said the ambulance was on a routine transfer, not an emergency call, when it was struck.
He said he was still investigating the crash. Police hadn’t identified the injured parties at the scene, but said their injuries did not appear to be life-threatening.
County Ambulance personnel on the scene declined to comment on the crash.
