By MELISSA MEEHAN
A PARAMEDIC was taken to hospital last night after the ambulance she was travelling in accidently ran into a front yard in Montrose.
The ambulance crew was attending to a patient when the accident happened.
It is believed the ambulance was making a turn on a narrow street when the driver accidentally accelerated, driving the ambulance down an embankment, over a retaining wall, into the neighbouring front yard.
The female paramedic who was in the back of the ambulance at the time has been taken to hospital.
Regional manager Cath Anderson said that the paramedic was in a stable condition.
“No other vehicles were involved and no-one else injured,” Ms Anderson said.
“Another ambulance was arranged to take the patient to their destination.”
Montrose CFA spokesman Rob Waters, who attended the scene after the crash, said it would have been a frightening experience.
“They were very lucky,” he said.
“The carport actually broke the fall of the ambulance so that saved it going down the embankment any further. They were certainly distressed in the vehicle.”
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