PLAYA VISTA, LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- A 60-year-old female passenger in a taxi cab was killed Saturday morning when the vehicle struck a Los Angeles Fire Department ambulance in Playa Vista, the agency said.
The collision occurred about 8:22 a.m. in the 13200 block of West Jefferson Boulevard as the ambulance was responding to an emergency call with its lights and sirens activated, the LAFD said in a statement.
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The firefighter-paramedics gave the woman medical assistance but were unable to revive her, the statement said. She was pronounced dead at the scene.
Her identity was not immediately released.
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The man who was driving the taxi and two LAFD firefighters were transported to a hospital "due to the mechanism of the collision" but were not seriously injured, the news release said.
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