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Crash between ambulance vehicle and car on Wells Road
A paramedic driving a rapid response vehicle was involved in a crash with a car shortly before 2pm on Friday afternoon.
Video footage shows first an ambulance and then the rapid response vehicle driving along Wells Road in Totterdown towards Knowle.
Close to Totterdown Baptist Church on the corner of Sydenham Road, a white car pulls out and collides with the rapid response vehicle which had its siren on and lights flashing.
Bristol24/7 understands that the driver of the rapid response vehicle stopped at the scene to provide first aid for the female driver of the white car, who was later taken to hospital in an ambulance to the BRI.
A spokesperson for the South Western Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust (SWASFT) said: “We were made aware at 13:57hrs on Friday 4 November of a road traffic collision involving one of our rapid response vehicles, in Totterdown, Bristol.
“We sent a double-crewed land ambulance, a responding officer and an operations officer and conveyed one patient by land to Bristol Royal Infirmary.”
Writing on Twitter, Avon & Somerset police said: “We can confirm is a rapid response ambulance vehicle in the video. There are not believed to be any life-threatening/changing injuries. Police officers attended scene.”
Main photo & video: Huseyin Sipahi
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