Ambulance Crash Kills One-Year-Old Girl

An ambulance crashed into a waiting shed, killing a one-year-old patient and injuring four others, including her parents, in Barangay Paraiso, Sagay City, Negros Occidental, on Saturday. (Photo courtesy of Sagay City Police Station)

By Glazyl Y. Masculino

BACOLOD CITY—A one-year-old girl died after an ambulance transporting her to a hospital crashed into a waiting shed in Barangay Paraiso, Sagay City, Negros Occidental, on Saturday night.

Police Lt. Col. Alvimar Flores, chief of the Sagay Police, said the child had experienced a seizure, prompting her parents to rush her to the hospital.

The 51-year-old ambulance driver lost control of the vehicle on a descending curve amid heavy rains, causing the ambulance to veer into the opposite lane and crash into a wooden waiting shed.

The crash injured the child’s parents, aged 23 and 28, the ambulance driver, and a 42-year-old member of the Barangay Peacekeeping Action Team (BPAT), all of whom are now recovering in a hospital.

Flores stated that authorities are waiting for the family’s decision on whether to file charges against the ambulance driver.

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