5 hurt after ambulance crashes with SUV on highway west of Edmonton

Correction: A previous version of this article indicated the ambulance was responding to a service call and had its lights and siren on at the time of the crash. Parkland RCMP have since indicated that was not the case.

RCMP say five people went to hospital after an ambulance crashed with an SUV west of Edmonton.

The crash happened Monday along a stretch of highway in Parkland County, south of Stony Plain.

Mounties say the SUV was crossing a highway when it collided with the ambulance, which had been carrying three emergency medical personnel.

Police say the driver of the SUV and a passenger are at the University of Alberta Hospital in critical but stable condition, and the ambulance workers were taken to area hospitals in other ambulances.

RCMP spokesman Cpl. Troy Savinkoff says one paramedic was sent home with minor injuries, another has moderate non-life-threatening injuries and the third is in stable condition.

An investigation will look at the actions of the SUV driver and why the vehicle failed to stop at the intersection, said Savinkoff.

“Is it simply a range road stop sign that they missed? Is it a situation where it was excessive speed that caused them to go through the intersection?” he said Tuesday.

“That’s what we’d be investigating to determine what caused that vehicle to not stop at that intersection.”