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Accident on Easter Monday: Damaged ambulance and the accident car

Photo: Marvin Filipovic / dpa

A woman has died in Frankfurt am Main after a car collided with an ambulance. The 59-year-old died from her injuries in hospital, a police spokesman said.

The driver of the car in which the woman was traveling and a child in the car reportedly suffered minor injuries in the accident on Monday. They were also taken to the hospital. No one was injured in the ambulance, which contained two emergency services and a patient. Several media outlets had previously reported.

How the collision occurred must now be determined. According to the police's initial findings, the ambulance was on an emergency trip and had blue lights flashing.

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