Northeast Philadelphia<\/a>.<\/p>\nBoth the mother and infant girl were thrown through the front windshield of the ambulance when the vehicle slammed into a Honda Accord at around 5:15 a.m. at the corner of Harbison and Torresdale avenues in the Frankford neighborhood, according to police.<\/p>\n
Investigators said the ambulance was going fast, but that the operator had not activated its lights or siren. The emergency vehicle was headed south on Torresdale, went through a steady red light and hit the Honda, which was heading east on a green light, authorities said.<\/p>\n
Following the collision, Philadelphia Fire Department medics rushed the child, identified as Marian Harris, to Einstein Medical Center, where she died at around 6:15 a.m, law enforcement officials said.<\/p>\n
Marian\u2019s mother, whose age has not been released, was taken to Einstein in critical condition with severe head trauma, according to the PPD.<\/p>\n
Police said the Honda driver, a 25-year-old man, refused medical treatment at the scene, while the 51-year-old ambulance operator was hospitalized at Jefferson Torresdale. There was no word on his condition.<\/p>\n
The ambulance driver is expected to be charged with DUI and other offenses, investigators added. Authorities have not publicly identified him.<\/p>\n
PPD representatives said that, at the time of the collision, officers were headed to a house on the 6600 block of Ditman Street in Tacony for a report of an unresponsive infant. Marian\u2019s family left the house in a privately-owned ambulance before they arrived, officials added.<\/p>\n
The vehicle belongs to Juniata-based Medstar EMS, one of more than two dozen ambulance companies<\/a> licensed to operate in Philadelphia. A Medstar representative declined to comment Sunday, saying the crash remains under investigation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Jack Tomczuk Authorities said a 3-month-old baby was killed and her mother was seriously injured after an…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":657788,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5132],"tags":[177769,5229,23858,137626,68504,10324,1448,2830,1311,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":["post-657787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-ambulance-crash","tag-america","tag-dui","tag-infant-death","tag-local-crime","tag-northeast-philadelphia","tag-pa","tag-pennsylvania","tag-philadelphia","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116234241211540729","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657787","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=657787"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657787\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/657788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=657787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=657787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=657787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}