PESHTIGO, WI (WTAQ) – A 76-year-old woman killed when her vehicle collided with an ambulance was identified Wednesday as Norita Gifford of Peshtigo.
Marinette County authorities said her vehicle turned left from an access road, into the path of an ambulance going south on Highway 41.
Officials said a nearby freight train had to stop, so it wouldn’t hit the ambulance — and it caused traffic backups at nearby railroad crossings.
The crash occurred late Tuesday morning near Peshtigo. A dog in Gifford’s car also died.
The ambulance driver, a 57-year-old Escanaba Michigan man, was taken to a hospital with non-life-threatening injuries. A 27-year-old ambulance attendant was treated and later released.
A female patient in the ambulance was first taken to a Marinette hospital, and then to a Green Bay hospital.
(Story courtesy of Wheeler News Service)
