Injured men stranded in stalled ambulance

THREE accident victims were left stranded for over one hour and a half on the Valencia stretch Sunday after the EHS Ambulance which was taking them to the Sangre Grande Hospital broke down.

The driver of the ambulance had to radio for assistance for another ambulance. The victims, three men from Curepe, were travelling east along the Valencia stretch when their car skidded off the road and crashed into a dwelling house. Nearby residents rendered  assistance and the police and EHS ambulance were summoned by passersby. They arrived on the scene quickly and  police and fire personnel assisted in removing the occupants from the crashed vehicle and putting them in the ambulance to be taken to the Sangre Grande Hospital. However, the vehicle failed to start. The injured men were later warded the Sangre Grande Hospital.