An Ottawa Fire Service officer and a city worker were injured and taken to hospital Thursday after a motorist speeding through at intersection hit their vehicles as they attended the scene of an earlier collision.
Shortly after 10 a.m. fire services crews were extricating a woman from her car after she lost control of it on an icy stretch of road at the intersection of Moodie Drive and Barnsdale Road.
Just at they were clearing the scene after getting the woman out of her vehicle and to hospital, a vehicle speeding along Moodie Drive raced through the intersection and crashed into a fire department safety officer’s SUV and a vehicle belonging to a city staffer who had been controlling oncoming traffic.
Both the safety officer and the municipal worker were “pretty shaken up,” Acting Platoon Chief Ross Saunders said late Thursday.
“This guy (in the car) came bombing through the intersection at high speed,” he said.
The two victims were taken to hospital where they were examined, treated and eventually released.
According to Saunders, the driver of the speeding vehicle, whom he described as in his 20s, was also taken to hospital with injuries.
He has been charged, Saunders said.
