An SUV and an ambulance collided and closed a busy roadway Wednesday afternoon.
The crash happened around 1:45 p.m. when an SUV driver reported having a medical emergency and pulled from the Pine Watson Shopping Center into the front of the transport medic unit on Pine Street (Route 413) in Langhorne Borough.
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The crash badly damaged both vehicles and the driver of the SUV was taken to the hospital, police Chief John Godzieba said.
Langhorne-Middletown Fire Company Chief Frank Farry said the patient in the ambulance was being transported from St. Mary Medical Center to a Philadelphia hospital. They were returned to the Middletown hospital.
The ambulance, which belonged to a private company, did not have lights and sirens activated at the time of the crash.
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Godzieba said traffic was blocked along busy Pine Street for about an hour.
