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The ambulance had its lights and siren activated as it traveled north on Goffle Road to a medical emergency just after 11 p.m. last Friday, the police report says. No patients were aboard.
A 25-year-old lieutenant firefighter, meanwhile, was headed east on the Lafayette Avenue extension to a firehouse in his personal vehicle, his volunteer blue light activated, when it struck the rig on the driver’s side, the report says.
The ambulance roof hit a utility pole before the rig finally came to rest on its side.
The lieutenant's vehicle, meanwhile, bounced off and hit a traffic light stanchion on the southwest corner of the intersection, the report says.
Both vehicles had obstructed views created by a brick well house, shrubs and a six-foot private fence on the southwest corner, Officer James Hayes wrote in his report (see chart above).
Many have called it a blind corner.
Neither the two female nor one male ambulance workers appeared injured but were taken to the hospital as a precaution, Hayes wrote. So was the firefighter, who sustained a shoulder injury.
The officer's report includes an account provided by a Wyckoff man who witnessed the crash.
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