A Little More on the Incident Involving the Ambulance

I have heard from people who were there and from newspaper reports that the ambulance had come to a stop at the lights. While this photo, taken later in the day and sent to me by a reader, shows it was on the right hand side of the traffic island it also appears to show that the red car had taken the corner very wide. The damage to the ambulance also suggests that it was stationary, one impact site, not a long mark that that would be produced if it was moving when the red car hit.

Today I was at this junction and I watched cars turning left from the Totnes Rd and they all managed to do so without moving out of the left lane.

Fatal Accident.

There was a fatal accident here in Torbay, at Churston Bridge, this morning at about 8:30. Churston Bridge is an accident Black Spot. This accident involved a motorcycle, a van and a large truck. The motorcyclist was badly injured and was being taken to hospital by ambulance which was itself involved in a collision at the lights a Tweenaway Cross in Paignton.

The junction where the second crash happened, is a well know traffic bottleneck. At this spot the road is a duel carriageway with two lanes in either direction. The lanes in the direction the ambulance was travelling would have been full of traffic for about 100 yards up to the traffic lights at the junction with Totnes Road and the driver of the ambulance decided to travel on the right hand side of the central reservation to avoid a long delay. As he reached the junction the red car made a left turn from Totnes Road and collided with the ambulance. An other ambulance, based in Paignton, took the injured motorcyclist on to Torbay Hospital. Unfortunately the motorcyclist died later. He had suffered severe head and chest injures in the original accident.