Date Published: 05/23/09

Police car, ambulance crash...Cop fight for life

A POLICEWOMAN was fighting for her life last night after a squad car was in a head-on smash with an ambulance.

She was one of four cops in the marked vehicle on a training exercise.

The Ford Mondeo — with a male officer behind the wheel — was taking a corner on a hill and crashed into the driver’s side of the ambulance.

The woman was airlifted to hospital after the collision on the A939 Tomintoul to Ballindalloch road in Moray.

Firefighters used cutting equipment to free two people from the wreckage.

Another Northern Constabulary officer and one of the ambulance’s two paramedics were injured in the incident near the Lecht Ski Centre yesterday morning.

The accident happened in the Grampian Police force area.

A spokeswoman said: “They were in a training vehicle, so it appears they were on a training drive.

“The officer was taken by heli-ambulance to Raigmore Hospital in Inverness. The others received minor injuries.

The injured paramedic is believed to have a suffered a fractured arm. A Scottish Ambulance Service spokesman said both paramedics and one police officer were taken to Aberdeen Royal Infirmary.

The other two police officers were driven back to Inverness by colleagues in another car.

A section of the A939 has been closed for police investigators to examine the site.