Dash camera footage shows the moment an ambulance transporting a patient during Tuesday's storm narrowly avoided another vehicle as it rolled over and crashed across the highway.
Cataldo Ambulance Service said Paramedic Tim Crosbie was driving on I-95 in Peabody with a patient in the back when a sedan crashed directly in front of him. The other vehicle comes close to rolling into the ambulance, but the crew avoided a collision then pulled over to help.
"Next thing I see out of the corner of my left eye is a car coming across the median," Crosbie told NBC10 Boston. "Basically right at me."
"It's almost like slow motion when you're living through it," said EMT Tim Wareham, who was tending to a patient, but saw the crash unfold. "It was coming right at us."
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Wareham stayed with the patient in the ambulance, while Crosbie went to check on the driver.
Massachusetts State Police said the sedan's driver lost control while traveling north on the highway around 12:15 p.m. The video shows the car crashing across the median before it struck a guardrail on the southbound side of the highway.
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The sedan's driver was not hurt, according to state police. The Massachusetts Department of Transportation came out to treat the road in repair the guardrail. There were lane closures due to the work.
"Expecting the worst because it was such a severe accident," said Crosbie. "Luckily, it was a young man, he rolled down his window, and he appeared to be fine. He just was scared to death."
The ambulance crew continued on to Mass General Hospital with their patient, Cataldo said.
Snow-related crashes were reported across Massachusetts Tuesday as a nor'easter bore down on the state.
