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Miracle escape for emergency crews hit by motorist

Feb 7 2010 Sunday Sun

EMERGENCY crews attending a road accident had a miracle escape when a another driver ploughed into FOUR vehicles at the crash scene.

The motorist collided with an ambulance, a fire station car, a police vehicle and a fire engine.

The bizarre incident happened on the A1 near Clifton, Morpeth, Northumberland, after all three emergency crews had rushed to the scene of a crash.

Just seconds after paramedics had placed a patient into an ambulance, a car slammed into the back of their vehicle.

It then rolled into a fire station car, hit a police car and finally crashed into a fire engine.

Northumbria Police were in the process of closing the road when the accident happened at around 7.40am yesterday.

Earlier, police issued a warning for drivers to take care after freezing fog was compounded by patches of black ice.

A police spokeswoman said: “As police were in the process of closing the section of road an approaching car braked and skidded on black ice and into the stationary emergency services vehicles.

“This was followed by a handful of other cars leaving the road.”

The paramedics and the patient in the back of the ambulance all suffered whiplash, and the driver of the car which hit the emergency vehicles suffered non-life threatening head injuries.