Trapped driver cut free after Huddersfield ambulance smash - pictures

Oct 5 2009 by Nick Lavigueur, Huddersfield Daily Examiner

A TRAPPED motorist had to be cut out of a prestige Range Rover following an accident with an ambulance on a 999 call.

The incident happened opposite Huddersfield University at 1.30pm yesterday afternoon as the ambulance travelled down Queensgate towards the Shorehead roundabout.

It is thought the ambulance was heading on an emergency call to treat a child suffering from a fit when it collided with a black Range Rover worth about £50,000 that was turning out of Zetland Street.

The ambulance then smashed head-on into railings outside Bar Amour, badly damaging the front of the vehicle.

The smash left the Range Rover pointing the wrong way up Queensgate.