Ambulance Crash Kills One-Year-Old Girl

By Glazyl Y. Masculino

BACOLOD CITY—A one-year-old girl died after an ambulance transporting her to a hospital crashed into a waiting shed in Barangay Paraiso, Sagay City, Negros Occidental, on Saturday night.

Police Lt. Col. Alvimar Flores, chief of the Sagay Police, said the child had experienced a seizure, prompting her parents to rush her to the hospital.

The 51-year-old ambulance driver lost control of the vehicle on a descending curve amid heavy rains, causing the ambulance to veer into the opposite lane and crash into a wooden waiting shed.

The crash injured the child’s parents, aged 23 and 28, the ambulance driver, and a 42-year-old member of the Barangay Peacekeeping Action Team (BPAT), all of whom are now recovering in a hospital.

Flores stated that authorities are waiting for the family’s decision on whether to file charges against the ambulance driver.