Charges are pending after a Parksley man driving a Bloxom ambulance rear-ended a Perdue tractor trailer near the southbound intersection of Route 13 and the entrance to Chesapeake Square in Onley, according to state police.
The tractor trailer, driven by Benjamin Albert Smithwick, of Windsor, N.C., was stopped in the southbound lefthand lane for a red light when the ambulance, which had its emergency equipment activated, was on the way to Shore Memorial Hospital with a patient inside, state police said.
The ambulance, driven by Jerry Corbett Kellam Sr., of Parksley, attempted to go around the tractor trailer but instead hit the back left side of the tractor trailer and overturned. April Kellam, the ambulance driver’s wife, was a passenger in the ambulance. Both were was transported to TidalHealth in Maryland. Jerry Corbett Jr. and the patient riding in the ambulance were flown by medic to Norfolk General Hospital, state police said.
Charges are pending at this time, according to state police.
