Ambulance Hits Vehicle, Injuring Four

Four people were hurt Monday afternoon in a crash involving an ambulance at a West Paducah intersection.

McCracken County Sheriff's Deputies responded at around 2:30 pm to a crash involving an ambulance at the intersection of Fisher Road and US 60. Deputies said 56-year-old Douglas Smith of West Paducah was driving an ambulance east on US 60 with lights and sirens on approaching the Fisher Road intersection. Smith went to pass other vehicles in the passing lane and then slowed for the red light. Deputies said Smith struck another vehicle, driven by 46-year-old LeeAnn Crabtree of Paducah as he drove through the intersection. Crabtree told deputies that she had the green light and didn't see the ambulance before it hit her. Responders had to use mechanical means to remove Crabtree from her vehicle.

29-year-old Anna Abernathy of Wickliffe, an EMT attending to a patient, 55-year-old Ronald Thompson, of Paducah was ejected during the crash. Thompson was thrown from his stretcher, and struck the interior wheel well of the ambulance.

All four victims were taken to local hospitals for treatment of their injuries.