RIVERSIDE: Hummer driver arrested in crash with ambulance
Firefighters cut an AMR crew from their ambulance after an accident with two other vehicles.
BY SUZANNE HURT / STAFF WRITER
Published: Sept. 7, 2015
A Hummer driver was arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence in northwest Riverside following a three-vehicle crash that trapped an ambulance crew in their vehicle on the way to an emergency call early Monday morning.
Battalion 2 firefighters cut a door off the ambulance to free its crew after a Hummer H2 driving east on Arlington Avenue hit a white Toyota Corolla sedan shortly before 2:15 a.m. and one of the vehicles hit an AMR ambulance driving south on Van Buren Boulevard with sirens and lights on, said Riverside police Lt. Gary Leach.
No patient was in the ambulance, said Riverside Fire Department Battalion 2 Chief Jeff DeLaurie.
The extent of injuries was unclear. A Riverside Fire Department news release reported four people were injured, one critically. Two ambulance crew members had minor injuries, DeLaurie said. Two people with minor injuries were taken to a hospital. The Hummer driver was arrested on suspicion of DUI, said Leach, who had no other information on the driver.