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The crash occurred just before 3 p.m. at the corner of Valley Boulevard and Lincoln Avenue.
The Wallington Fire Department ambulance was taking a patient to Hackensack University Medical Center when, the driver told police, he was cut off by another vehicle while heading north on the Boulevard.
The ambulance veered into the southbound lane, where it first struck a parked vehicle, according to a police report.
It then “proceeded up onto the sidewalk and continued traveling northbound into the intersection of Lincoln Avenue,” where it “struck a vehicle that was stopped at the stop sign,” Detective Joseph Rutigliano Jr. told CLIFFVIEW PILOT.
“Witnesses report that the ambulance was traveling with the lights and sirens activated,” Rutigliano added.
The three occupants in the ambulance and two in the car stopped at the corner were taken to HUMC by ambulances from Wood-Ridge and Hasbrouck Heights.
Photos: CLIFFVIEWPILOT.COM
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