GEORGE TOWN: A 19-year-old student was seriously injured in a crash involving an ambulance and two other vehicles near Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM).
George Town deputy OCPD Supt Lee Swee Sake said the accident occurred at Jalan Bukit Gambir at 11am on Thursday (April 9).
“Police received a report at 1.06pm on the accident involving several vehicles in front of USM,” he said in a statement on Friday.
Initial investigations found that the student, who was driving a car, collided with an ambulance that was responding to an emergency with its siren activated at a traffic light intersection.
“The impact caused the ambulance to lose control and veer off course, before colliding with another car at the junction,” he said.
The incident resulted in a chain-reaction crash involving the ambulance and two cars.
The student sustained injuries to her chest, ribs and waist.
Also injured were the 51-year-old ambulance driver and three medical assistants — two men and a woman aged between 35 and 41 — who suffered minor injuries.
A 65-year-old driver of another car was not injured.
Supt Lee said the ambulance was not carrying a patient at the time but was on the way to pick one up.
The case is being investigated under Section 43(1) of the Road Transport Act 1987.
