Video: Maryland Medics Injured in Crash

Prince George's County ambulance struck by a car which was impaled by a pole

A man escapes being impaled as pole goes through car on Beltway after colliding with an ambulance. (WJLA photo)



OXON HILL, Md. (ABC7) – A man came within six inches of being killed by a pole Monday night in a Beltway crash that involved an ambulance.

It happened around 8:30 p.m. on the inner loop just before the St. Barnabas Road exit in Prince George’s County.

Prince George’s County Fire/EMS spokesperson Mark Brady said everything started when a car sideswiped the ambulance. That caused the ambulance driver to lose control. The driver wound up hitting a pole and crashing on the side of the Beltway.

Brady says the two Fire/EMS employees in the ambulance were taken to the hospital with non-life threatening injuries. He says the driver of the car believed to have sideswiped the ambulance stopped a couple hundred yards up the road from the scene.

PGFD says the ambulance was not responding to an emergency and its lights were not on when it was sideswiped.

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