Overview
- The collision occurred around 8 a.m. on Braunsberg in the Herkenrath district, where the child crossed on green and the ambulance entered on red with lights and siren.
- The 36-year-old driver and crew immediately treated the seriously injured boy before a second team rushed him to a nearby clinic, with life-threatening injuries not initially excluded.
- Two members of the original ambulance crew were declared unfit for duty and are receiving psychosocial emergency care.
- An additional ambulance took over the original medical call, and police reported no critical delay for that patient’s care.
- Verkehrskommissariat Burscheid leads the investigation with support from Cologne’s traffic-accident team and the fire department’s technical unit, and the street was temporarily closed for evidence work.