Tuesday, May 10, 2011

KS Firefighter Among the Injured in Apparatus-Car Wreck

A Soldier Township (KS) firefighter was injured along with three civilians in a apparatus vs. car accident:
Emergency dispatchers received a call at 4:43 p.m. about a Soldier Township Fire Department vehicle being involved in a wreck at N.W. 46th and Topeka Boulevard.

A firefighter, the driver and only person in the engine, was responding to a fire alarm in the 8000 block of N.E. Sherman Road, He was driving east on N.W. 46th and collided with a Ford Mustang that was traveling south on N.W. Topeka Boulevard, said Sgt. Danny Lotridge.

Two of the three occupants of the Mustang, who were Seaman High School students, had to be extricated from the vehicle. The driver and back-seat passenger were transported to a Topeka hospital with injuries not considered to be life-threatening. The front-seat passenger of the Mustang was transported to a Topeka hospital with injures described as serious, Gilchrist said.

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