Fire truck crashes in Kansas City Northland, injuring several on way to false alarm
A fire truck responding to a reported fire collided with a car injuring a crew of four firefighters and the car’s driver Wednesday afternoon in Kansas City’s Northland, a fire department spokesman said.
The crash occurred shortly after 12:15 p.m. at the intersection of Northeast 96th Street and North Oak Trafficway.
“There was a fire truck that was running emergency with lights and sirens on to a regular alarm commercial fire and as they were clearing an intersection . . . they were involved in a traffic collision,” said Fire Inspector Jason Spreitzer, a spokesman for the Kansas City Fire Department.
All five people injured were taken to the hospital for treatment of non-life-threatening injuries, Spreitzer said. The driver of the car had to be extricated.
The Kansas City Police Department investigated the crash and determined that the fire truck was southbound on North Oak with its lights and sire on, said Capt. Leslie Foreman, a police spokeswoman. The fire truck entered the intersection under a red light and collided with an eastbound Nissan sedan.
The driver, an adult woman, was the only one inside the vehicle, she said.
At the time of the crash, firefighters were responding to a reported fire at a storage facility near Missouri 152 highway and North Oak Trafficway, Spreitzer said.
The fire was a false alarm. A caller to 911 reported smoke coming from the area, but it turned out to be a work crew cutting concrete that had created a plume of dust.
This story was originally published June 9, 2021 at 1:54 PM.
