School Bus Collides With Ambulance On Queens Boulevard

A school bus collided with an ambulance at the intersection of Queens Boulevard and Continental Avenue in Forest Hills Thursday afternoon.

The bus, which had only a handful of school children on board, broadsided the ambulance, which was empty, at around 3:30 p.m. Thursday.

None of the six children and one adult on the bus were seriously injured, though they were taken by ambulance to as a precaution.

According to witnesses at the scene, the North Shore-LIJ Hospital ambulance was travelling south on Continental Avenue, at one of the busiest and most accident-prone intersections in the area, when it was struck by the school bus, which was travelling east on Queens Boulevard.

The accident mangled the side doors of the ambulance and blew out one of the windows, but the drivers of both were unharmed as well.

Eric Wong, 25, who was in the at the intersection when the accident happened, said he heard sirens before looking out the window and seeing the collision.

“It happened so fast, I saw the front end of the school bus turn and jerk quickly, and [the ambulance] tried to swerve out of his way,” Wong said. “I guess he knew he was going to get hit anyway, but he couldn’t do much about it. They met right in the middle of the intersection.”