{"id":77992,"date":"2025-12-02T09:41:21","date_gmt":"2025-12-02T09:41:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/77992\/"},"modified":"2025-12-02T09:41:21","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T09:41:21","slug":"suv-crashes-into-l-a-ambulance-5-are-hospitalized","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/77992\/","title":{"rendered":"SUV crashes into L.A. ambulance; 5 are hospitalized"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A suspected drunk driver slammed into an ambulance on Sunday night in the San Fernando Valley, officials say.<\/p>\n<p>Five people were injured including the 94-year-old man the ambulance was transporting, the 81-year-old woman accompanying him, the ambulance\u2019s driver and another Los Angeles Fire Department staff member. They were all hospitalized \u201cin fair condition with unknown injuries,\u201d Fire Department spokesperson Jennifer Middleton said Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>The 34-year-old male driver of the SUV that hit the ambulance \u2014 the sole person in his vehicle \u2014 was taken to a trauma center and was in critical condition, Middleton said.<\/p>\n<p>The driver was arrested on suspicion of felony driving under the influence  after the crash, Los Angeles Police Department spokesperson Drake Madison confirmed Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The  LAFD ambulance was struck by the black SUV around 8 p.m. Sunday at Woodman Avenue and Chase Street in Arleta, according to  Middleton.<\/p>\n<p>The car was severely damaged, according to <a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/t\/ZTrAG5APg\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">online witnesses on TikTok<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>The cause of the collision is still under investigation as of Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Another <a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/california\/story\/2025-09-03\/lafd-ambulance-crashes-in-la-drawing-crash-investigator-who-also-crashes\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">LAFD ambulance carrying crash victims<\/a> was struck earlier this year in the San Fernando Valley. A battalion chief sent to investigate that collision then collided with a vehicle at the same intersection almost an hour later. <\/p>\n<p> <script async src=\"\/\/www.tiktok.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A suspected drunk driver slammed into an ambulance on Sunday night in the San Fernando Valley, officials say.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":77993,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[44813,283,44811,8197,350,44810,11057,44809,44808,48,52,51,47,50,49,44814,7611,7247,3808,178,44812],"class_list":["post-77992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-34-year-old-male-driver","tag-car","tag-chase-street","tag-collision","tag-crash","tag-elderly-patient","tag-fire-department","tag-jennifer-middleton","tag-l-a-ambulance","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news","tag-online-witness","tag-san-fernando-valley","tag-suv","tag-tiktok","tag-vehicle","tag-woodman-avenue"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77992","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77992"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77992\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}