PARAMEDICS sent to deal with a medical emergency ended up in an emergency themselves.

Their ambulance was in a crash with a car at a junction on a main Huddersfield road.

The vehicle was in collision with a Citroen at the junction of Wakefield Road and Silver Street just before 2.30pm yesterday.

The force of the impact sent the ambulance careering into traffic lights and bollards near the large Lidl store at the bottom of Somerset Road.

Both paramedics – a man and a woman – suffered slight burn injuries after their airbags went off.

The car driver was unhurt.

The smash caused traffic hold-ups in the area.

Earlier in the day passengers escaped injury in a bus crash near Deighton.

The double-decker was in an accident with a Ford Transit van and a Citroen Xsara car on Leeds Road near Syngenta at 9am yesterday.

No-one was hurt.

In a third accident an 88-year-old woman was involved in a crash on Huddersfield ring road.

Her blue Nissan Micra was in collision with a Peugeot 206 on Southgate at its junction with St Peter’s Street at 1.50pm.

Neither the woman – who comes from Scholes – nor the 63-year-old man driving the Peugeot were hurt.