‘Ottawa’ Ottawa Paramedics Kept Busy with 4 Separate Crashes This Weekend
Paramedics transported a total of seven people to hospital, including one person by helicopter, following four separate crashes Saturday night and early Sunday morning.
The first happened on Roger Stevens at Dwyer Hill at around 6 p.m. Saturday and involved multiple vehicles, paramedics said.
A nine-year-old girl, a 24-year-old man, and a 19-year-old woman were taken to hospital with serious to minor injuries.
Paramedics called an Ornge helicopter to airlift a 47-year-old woman with head and chest injuries to the Ottawa Hospital Trauma unit.
Then, at 1:15 a.m. Sunday, paramedics were called to the intersection of Richmond Road and Croydon Avenue after a motorcycle and a car collided.
The 52-year-old man who was riding the motorcycle was taken to hospital with head and neck injuries, paramedics said.
The motorcycle took the brunt of the impact, and was crushed in the crash.
The third crash involved a single vehicle and a light post near St Laurent Boulevard and Ogilvie Road.
Paramedics say the car careened off the road, over a sidewalk, and into a number of trees where it destroyed a light post.
Two 19-year-old men received minor injuries, but only one was taken to hospital.
Later that morning Ottawa Fire Services were called to a two-car collision on Viseneau Drive and Bromont Way.
Responders said a light post had landed on one of the cars, trapping the driver who was unconscious but breathing.
Ottawa paramedics say an 18-year-old woman was taken to hospital in critical condition.
Another person was assessed on scene.