Pedestrian Dies In Denver Ambulance Crash

DENVER --

One person is dead and three other people were injured, one critically, when an ambulance and a car collided at the intersection of Martin Luther King Boulevard and York Street early Tuesday morning.

The ambulance was headed westbound on Martin Luther King when it collided with a Cadillac going north at a high rate of speed on York Street, at about 3:11 a.m. The impact sent the two vehicles through a bus stop, across a sidewalk and into the front yard of a home.

A woman critically injured in the crash later died at Denver Health Medical Center, said Denver Police Department spokesman Sonny Jackson.

The Cadillac rolled over and ended up on its roof, trapping the driver inside. He had to be cut out of the wreckage.

The two paramedics inside the ambulance were taken to Denver Health Medical Center in good condition.

"There was no one in the back of the ambulance, they were on their way to pick up," said Jackson.

The driver of the Cadillac was listed in critical condition, said Dee Martinez, spokeswoman for Denver Health Medical Center.

Denver police accident investigator J.L. Huff told reporters that the driver of the Cadillac was suspected of being drunk.

"He's so drunk and out of it that he didn't even know he was driving," Huff said.

Investigators believe the woman who died was waiting for a bus, walking on the sidewalk or was ejected from the Cadillac when it rolled.

Police said the ambulance had its lights and sirens going at the time of the crash.

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