WINNIPEG – A man was hit by an ambulance at a crash scene when it was pushed into him by a third vehicle in a hit-and-run on Tuesday morning.
Stonewall RCMP were on the scene of an earlier crash involving two vehicles that were in the ditch off CentrePort Canada Way, about two kilometres west of Brookside Boulevard, at about 10:15 p.m. Tuesday.
The drivers of those two vehicles had minor injuries and an ambulance was at the scene, with its emergency lights on, parked in the curb lane of the westbound lanes.
A westbound pickup truck hit the ambulance, knocking it into a man who had arrived because one of his family members was in the first crash, RCMP said in a news release.
That man and the two paramedics in the ambulance were then injured.
The driver of the pickup truck fled, police said.
The Highway Traffic Act was amended in September to state that drivers on multi-lane roads must slow down and move over when approaching emergency vehicles.
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