How to resolve AdBlock issue? SOUTH LAKE COUNTY, Calif. – Three people were injured late last week when a South Lake County Fire Protection District ambulance was hit head-on by another vehicle.
The collision occurred at 10:50 p.m. Friday, Jan. 11, on Highway 29 north of Tubbs Lane on the Napa County side of Mount St. Helena, according to the California Highway Patrol's Napa office.
The CHP said Petaluma resident Jennifer Pena, driving a Nissan Sentra, hit the ambulance.
South Lake County Battalion Chief Mike Wink said the ambulance was heading to Napa County with a patient for an interfacility transport, taking the patient from one hospital to another.
Two South Lake County Fire volunteers, whose names Wink and the CHP did not release, were in the ambulance with the patient.
The CHP said the ambulance was heading southbound at approximately 35 miles per hour, with Pena driving northbound at 40 miles per hour.
For an unknown reason, Pena allowed her vehicle to cross over the double yellow lines, hitting the ambulance, the CHP said.
Pena was uninjured, as was her passenger, Leon Joseph Sauvageau, 35, also of Petaluma, according to the CHP.
However, CHP officers found Sauvageau in possession of concentrated cannabis, a large amount of marijuana and a syringe, and arrested him.
The CHP said both South Lake County Fire volunteers and the patient had moderate injuries as a result of the crash.
Wink said the two firefighters were transported to Queen of the Valley Hospital and released later that night.
The patient was taken to St. Helena Hospital in Deer Park. Wink said he had been unable to get any information on the patient's condition.
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