Wild footage has captured the moment a Queensland ambulance runs a red light and crashes into a car, flipping it over.
The incident took place on Maroochydore Road at the intersection with the Sunshine Highway on the Sunshine Coast just after 10am on August 21.
After running the red light, the Subaru ambulance collided with a Kia, launching it into the air.
As a result of the accident, a passenger in the Kia sustained a minor neck injury and was transported to the Sunshine Coast University Hospital in a stable condition, while those in the ambulance escaped injury.
While the video shows the ambulance had its emergency lights on at the time, it is unclear if it also had its sirens on as there is no audio.
A Queensland Ambulance Service spokesperson told Daily Mail Australia it is ‘currently investigating this incident’.
The Subaru is part of the QAS’s fleet of rapid response vehicles, often reserved to quickly attend cardiac arrest cases.
The Queensland Ambulance Service has launched an investigation into a collision between a rapid response ambulance crashing into a vehicle on the Sunshine Coast in August (pictured)
The collision sent the car flying through the air before coming to rest upside-down (pictured) and lead one passenger needing to be taken to hospital with a minor neck injury
The footage was posted to the Dash Cam Owners Australia Facebook page where it sparked debate over who was at fault.
Many Australians held the ambulance driver responsible for the accident, arguing that they should have slowed down to ensure the intersection was safe to cross.
‘Lights and sirens or not – ambulance can’t just fly through a red light at full speed,’ one explained.
‘There’s very much a duty of care there.’
‘Emergency services can’t just blow through lights like that, really crazy to see them come through at that speed at an intersection with poor visibility of the intersecting road,’ a second added.
A fellow paramedic also put blame on the ambulance’s driver, and said they are only allowed to break road rules ‘when it’s safe to do so’.
‘I would never go through an intersection when on an emergency without slowing and checking, even if I had the green light.’
Others empathised with the paramedics,
‘This is just a person doing their job, and some of the best people, doing very hard things to help other people,’ they said
‘And now they have to stop here and deal with this nightmare, knowing the person they were on the way to will probably not get the care they require.
‘No one here will feel worse than the ambo driver in this situation.’
Queensland road rules force drivers to give way to emergency vehicles either sounding an alarm or flashing emergency lights at an intersection.
‘This applies even if you are facing a green traffic light or arrow and the emergency vehicle appears to have stopped or slowed down,’ the Queensland Government website reads.
‘Emergency vehicles often stop or slow down when they enter intersections to check if they can pass through safely.’
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