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Ambulance and hatchback involved in Orange crash; no one hurt

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A collision between an ambulance and a hatchback in Orange on Tuesday, Dec. 4 resulted in no injuries.

The crash happened on The City Drive near Chapman Avenue sometime before 7 p.m. and led to a brief closure of northbound City Drive traffic. At the time, no patients were being treated in the ambulance, which had just been dispatched from UCI Medical Center, according to Orange firefighter Eric Birkelbach.

  • First responders at the scene of a traffic collision involving an ambulance and a hatchback on Tuesday, December 4. (Eric Licas, Orange County Register/SCNG)

  • An ambulance rests on a curb after it was involved in a two-vehicle collision in Orange on Tuesday, December 4. (Photo by Eric Licas, Orange County Register/SCNG)

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  • Flares mark the scene of a two-vehicle collision involving an ambulance and a hatchback in Orange on Tuesday, December 4. (Eric Licas, Orange County Register/SCNG)

  • A damaged chain-link fence rests on the hood of an ambulance that was involved in a traffic collision in Orange on Tuesday, December 4. (Eric Licas, Orange County Register/SCNG)

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Information regarding the circumstances leading up to the collision was not immediately released by authorities. The hatchback sustained substantial front-end damage. The ambulance had traveled onto a curb and through a worn chain link fence guarding a grassy slope adjacent to an overpass of the 5 freeway.

“This is a dangerous intersection,” said Orange Police Officer Cody Trippy as he laid cones to block traffic on The City Drive. “Just look at the rest of that fence.”

The barrier was visibly damaged, bent down almost to the ground in some sections.

Both drivers, as well as a passenger in the cabin of the ambulance, were uninjured. All but one of the northbound lanes of The City Drive were reopened at about 7:30 p.m.