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Medic critically injured in crash that temporarily shut down Freeport Road

By Natalie Reid Miller, WPXI-TV

Ambulance crash The crash happened around 4 a.m. in the 900 block of Freeport Road in Lincoln-Lemington, near the Walnut Grill.

By Natalie Reid Miller, WPXI-TV

PITTSBURGH — A medic as taken to a local hospital after an ambulance crash in a Pittsburgh neighborhood early Wednesday morning.

The crash happened around 4:30 a.m. on Freeport Road near Walnut Grill.

A Lower Kiski ambulance, out of Armstrong County, was taking a woman to nearby St. Margaret Hospital when it crossed the centerline and struck a guardrail, according to a Pittsburgh Public Safety report.

A female medic in the rear of the vehicle was not wearing a seatbelt and sustained head injuries, facial trauma and was initially unresponsive. She was taken to a local hospital by Pittsburgh EMS in critical condition, according to the report.

The patient and the male driver were not injured in the crash.

Ambulance crash A medic was critically injured in an ambulance crash on Freeport Road.

The Collision Investigation Unit responded to the scene and Freeport Road was closed temporarily. It reopened to traffic by 6 a.m.

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