CLOSE SHAVE: Passengers including the critically ill patient are helped out of the ambulance unhurt.
SIBU: An ambulance rushing a critically ill patient to Sibu Hospital collided with a bus at a traffic-light intersection in Lada Road here at 11.30am yesterday.
The ambulance was badly dented and landed on its side following the collision.
All five in the vehicle – the driver, a doctor, a medical assistant, the patient and his wife – were not injured.
The patient, in his 50s and on oxygen support, had to be helped out of the vehicle and transferred to another ambulance which was also sending a patient to the hospital here.
The two ambulances were coming from Sarikei Hospital.
The bus driver and the bus passengers were not injured.
Police were summoned. Several army personnel also arrived to help.
Meanwhile, a pedestrian was killed after he was knocked down by a lorry at Pedada Road at 7.30am yesterday.
Lee Kok Ki, 66, from Tong Sang Road was walking along Pedada Road when a lorry knocked him down.
He was rushed to a private hospital before being referred to the Intensive Care Unit of the Sibu Hospital at 8.30am.
The man succumbed to head and body injuries around 10am.
In a separate accident, two siblings were seriously injured after the motorcycle they were riding collided with a 4-wheel-drive vehicle at Mile 9 Oya Road near their longhouse at 9.30am yesterday.
Luta Panyang, 60, was sending his 45-year-old sister Mesi to Sibu Hospital for a medical appointment when the accident struck.
They were thrown off their bike while the 4-wheel-drive vehicle veered and rammed into a roadside tree.
Mesi suffered a fractured right arm and right thigh. She passed out on arrival at the hospital here.
Her brother sustained a fractured right thigh and injured his neck, face and chest.
The 20-something driver of the 4-wheel-drive vehicle escaped injuries.