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ATV rider doing tricks is killed in collision with Mo. ambulance

A Kansas City Police Department spokesperson said the victim had accelerated and lost control before striking the ambulance

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A Kansas City, Mo. Fire Department ambulance.

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By Noelle Alviz-Gransee
The Kansas City Star

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — One person is dead after hitting an ambulance and getting ejected from an ATV in Kansas City on Sunday morning.

First responders were called to the area of West 32nd Street and Broadway Boulevard around 3:15 a.m. to an ATV crash where the driver was ejected.

An ambulance had been traveling south on Broadway and saw an ATV, with no headlights, doing tricks on the road, according to Sgt. Philip DiMartino, a spokesperson with the Kansas City Police Department.

The driver of the ATV accelerated and lost control, hitting the ambulance. The driver was ejected and struck by the ambulance and was pronounced dead at the scene, according to DiMartino.

No one in the ambulance was injured. There was a patient in the back of the ambulance. Another ambulance responded to the scene to finish taking that patient to the hospital.

This death marks the 86th traffic fatality this year, compared to 90 this time last year, according to data tracked by the police department.

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