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Patient badly injured in ambulance-truck crash

An ambulance is badly damaged after it rear-ended a truck in Lom Sak district, Phetchabun, late on Friday night. The crash caused a patient to sustain seriously injuries. (Photo: Sunthorn Kongvarakhom)

PHETCHABUN: A patient was badly injured when an ambulance rear-ended a truck in Lom Sak district late on Friday night.

The ambulance from Khao Kho Hospital in Phetchabun was on the way to take the patient to Lomsak Hospital in the same province when it suddenly rammed into the back of the six-wheel truck at Nam Chun intersection in Lom Sak district around 11pm, said police.

The crash caused the patient to sustain serious injuries and a nurse was slightly hurt. The front of the ambulance was badly damaged.

Medics and rescue workers rushed to the scene to take the injured to Lomsak Hospital. 

Police were questioning the drivers of the two vehicles to establish the cause of the accident.

The ambulance and the truck involved in the crash in Lom Sak district, Phetchabun province, on Friday night. (Photo: Sunthorn Kongvarakhom)
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