T Bone Crash Involving Ambulance

On Monday, September 18, 2017 at approximately 1:18 pm Tualatin Police responded to a t-bone crash involving a Metro West ambulance into a sedan on SW Nyberg Road where it intersects with the entrance to Fred Meyer’s.

Witnesses told officers that the ambulance was traveling eastbound on SW Nyberg Road with its lights and siren on.  The ambulance driver, according to the witnesses, failed to stop for the red light and crashed into a 2016 Volkswagen sedan as it was pulling out of the Fred Meyer parking lot, turning left to travel westbound onto SW Nyberg Road.  The sedan was occupied by the driver and three passengers.  All four of the sedan’s occupants were transported to OHSU with unknown injuries.  The driver and passenger of the ambulance were uninjured and the ambulance was not transporting any patients at the time of the crash.

No citations have been issued at this time.  The cause of the crash is still under investigation.  No further information.