Firefighters said it took 20 minutes until the medics were extricated from their ambulance after crashing into a restaurant.
– Two medics were rushed to a hospital Thursday night after their ambulance flipped and crashed into a restaurant in southwest Houston.said it appears the private ambulance was headed southbound on Gessner when it changed lanes and hit a restaurant’s exterior before flipping.
Responding crews came across the ambulance landed on its side and saw the two medics operating the ambulance were trapped inside the cab.Ambulance crashes, lands on its side trapping two medics insideThe medics have yet to be identified but were described as a man and woman. We’re told the man, who was driving, was rushed to a hospital in serious condition but is expected to survive, while the woman was hospitalized with a broken arm.
No other details have been shared, as of this writing, but HPD tells us its Vehicular Crimes Division was not called to the scene.Historian, educator, writer, expert on "The Simpsons," amateur photographer, essayist, film & tv reviewer and race/religious identity scholar. Joined KPRC 2 in Spring 2024 but has been featured in various online newspapers and in the Journal of South Texas' Fall 2019 issue.
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