SAN LORENZO — The California Highway Patrol investigation continued Tuesday into a Monday morning collision where a 74-year-old a woman being rushed to a hospital died after the ambulance she was in was broadsided by a car and flipped over, authorities said.
The driver of the Audi that hit the ambulance remained hospitalized Tuesday. He has been interviewed by investigators but what he told them is not being disclosed at this time, CHP Officer Dan Jacowitz said.
Authorities said an Alameda County firefighter/paramedic and two EMS employees with the Paramedics Plus ambulance company who were slightly injured in the collision were released from the hospital Monday. The firefighter was apparently rendering aid to the woman inside the ambulance before the wreck happened.
The woman who died was identified as Catherine Sunday of San Leandro.
An autopsy was performed Tuesday to determine if she died from injuries suffered in the wreck or from the medical emergency she was being taken to a hospital for, but the results have been deferred, officials said.
Authorities said Sunday was being transported from her home on Maubert Avenue in San Leandro to St. Rose Hospital in Hayward. What her medical condition was has not been disclosed. The ambulance, with its emergency lights and siren activated, was going southbound on Hesperian Boulevard when it was broadsided by the Audi, which was going east on Lewelling Boulevard about 11:13 a.m. Monday, authorities said.
Anyone with information about the wreck is asked to call the CHP Castro Valley office at 510-581-9028.