Wild footage has captured the moment a Queensland ambulance ran a red light and crashed into a car, causing it to overturn.
The incident happened on Maroochydore Road at the intersection with the Sunshine Highway on the Sunshine Coast just after 10am on August 21.
After running a red light, the Subaru ambulance collided with a Kia, launching it into the air.
As a result of the accident, a passenger in the Kia suffered minor neck injuries and was transported to Sunshine Coast University Hospital in a stable condition, while the occupants of the ambulance escaped injury.
Although the video shows that the ambulance had its emergency lights on at the time, it is unclear whether it also had its sirens on as there is no sound.
A spokesperson for the Queensland Ambulance Service told Daily Mail Australia it was “currently investigating this incident”.
The Subaru is part of the QAS fleet of rapid response vehicles, often reserved to quickly treat cases of cardiac arrest.
The Queensland Ambulance Service has launched an investigation into a crash involving a high-speed ambulance that crashed into a vehicle on the Sunshine Coast in August (pictured)
The impact sent the car flying through the air before coming to rest upside down (pictured) and resulting in one passenger being taken to hospital with minor neck injuries
The footage was posted to the Dash Cam Owners Australia Facebook page, where it sparked debate over who was to blame.
Many Australians held the ambulance driver responsible for the accident, arguing that they should have driven slower to ensure the intersection was safe to cross.
“Lights and sirens or not – an ambulance can’t just fly through a red light at full speed,” one person explained.
‘There is a great duty of care.’
“Emergency services can’t just blow through a light like that, really crazy to see them passing by at that speed at an intersection with poor visibility of the crossing road,” added a second.
A fellow paramedic also blamed the ambulance driver, saying they should only break traffic rules ‘if it is safe’.
“I would never cross an intersection in an emergency without slowing down and checking, even if I had a green light.”
Others sympathized with the paramedics,
“This is just someone doing his job, and some of the best people, doing very difficult things to help other people,” they said
“And now they have to stop here and deal with this nightmare, knowing that the person they were on their way to probably won’t get the care they need.
“No one here will feel worse in this situation than the ambo driver.”
Queensland road rules force motorists to give way to emergency vehicles sounding the alarm or flashing emergency lights at an intersection.
“This applies even if you are at a green traffic light or green arrow and the emergency vehicle appears to have stopped or slowed down,” the Queensland government website reads.
“Emergency vehicles often stop or slow down as they enter intersections to ensure they can pass through safely.”