La Car Crash Leads To Ambulance Crash, Only For The Crash Investigator To Also Crash

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Like astir cities successful nan U.S., Los Angeles is simply a metropolis built for cars. People are allowed to unrecorded there, too, but ultimately, nan metropolis belongs to nan cars. The group who thrust those cars also clang them constantly. But hey, astatine slightest if you get into a bad wreck, location are immoderate awesome hospitals nearby, and you tin count connected emergency responders to return attraction of you, right? Not necessarily. As the Los Angeles Times reports, you mightiness conscionable find yourself successful a Russian nesting doll of crashes that's truthful ridiculous, it would almost beryllium funny if it weren't truthful serious.

As you tin astir apt guess, this saga starts pinch a car crash. We don't person galore specifications connected nan first crash, but it was superior capable that astatine slightest 1 of nan victims needed to beryllium taken to nan hospital. That was astir apt beautiful scary for nan unfortunate and their loved ones, but the Los Angeles Fire Department had it nether power and dispatched an ambulance to get nan unfortunate to nan hospital. That appears to person gone smoothly enough, but erstwhile nan unfortunate was successful nan backmost of nan ambulance and headed for treatment, things took a bizarre twist. 

Another LA driver collapsed into nan ambulance, thing 1 of my caller caregiver friends would astir apt picture arsenic "not precisely ideal." That clang past required nan battalion main to thrust retired and analyse what had happened. Except erstwhile they arrived connected nan scene, they were progressive successful yet different crash. Yikes. Also, what nan hell, LA drivers? First responders person a difficult capable clip arsenic it is without group crashing into them each nan time. 

The clang that kicked this full point disconnected reportedly took spot during greeting unreserved hour, pinch nan adjacent clang occurring astatine 9:06 a.m. successful Reseda, an area of LA that sits northwest of Sherman Oaks. According to a LAFD spokesperson, a car described only arsenic "a ray grey sedan" deed nan ambulance adjacent nan intersection of Vanowen Street and Lindley Avenue. KTLA obtained footage from nan crash, though, that shows it was an aged Honda Civic. 

Reseda whitethorn hardly beryllium LA, but successful existent LA fashion, it took a afloat 40 minutes for nan battalion main to get connected nan segment pinch nan LAPD successful tow. Who deed who present still isn't clear, pinch the LA Times saying they "collided pinch a conveyance successful nan aforesaid intersection" and KTLA reporting "an LAFD battalion main responding to analyse nan clang was besides progressive successful a collision astatine nan aforesaid intersection — this clip pinch a acheronian grey sedan." Whether nan battalion main caused nan clang aliases not, that's still 2 other crashes successful summation to nan 1 that started this full point successful nan first place. 

Thankfully, nan 2 follow-up crashes didn't consequence successful immoderate deaths aliases superior injuries, and nan only personification taken to nan infirmary aft was nan clang victim, who was already successful nan ambulance and headed that way. According to nan LA Times, they only sustained insignificant injuries from nan Civic driver crashing into their ambulance, but we don't cognize if they've been released yet.