Photo: Courtesy of Polk County Sheriff’s Office
A driver was arrested Tuesday after Polk County deputies said he sideswiped an ambulance and injured a paramedic in the crash.
The Polk County Sheriff’s Office said an ambulance was traveling north on Harden Boulevard when a driver in a Volkswagen Jetta made a U-turn in front of the ambulance.
“After completing the U-turn, the Jetta entered the lane occupied by the ambulance and the vehicles collided,” the sheriff’s office said.
Deputies said the Jetta driver left the scene of the crash.
A paramedic who was riding in the back of the ambulance was taken to a hospital with a neck injury.
The sheriff’s office said deputies went to the home where the Jetta was registered and spoke with the owner of the car. She told them that her nephew had been driving it.
Deputies said 41-year-old M was found asleep on the couch.
“When deputies awakened him, he admitted that he had been involved in the crash, but claimed it was the ambulance driver’s fault,” Polk deputies said.
The sheriff’s office said video from the ambulance “clearly showed that M had caused the crash.”
“Gregory M not only caused the crash, he fled from the scene without checking on anybody, and then had the audacity to claim the other driver was at fault. He was vulgar and rude to the deputy and had to be removed from the patrol car after he refused to get out of it. I doubt there is a responsible bone in his body,” Sheriff Grady Judd said.
M was arrested and charged with leaving the scene of a crash with injury.
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Source: Wfla
