The ambulance was taking a a patient to hospital when it hit the traffic light (Picture: CEN)

An ambulance has smashed into traffic lights while responding to an emergency in Russia.

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The incident in Lipetsk was caught on a video showing the vehicle legally overtake on the central reservation before striking the obstacle.

The patient is said to have survived the crash and was taken to hospital in another ambulance.

The ambulance driver and doctors were not hurt in the crash but the ambulance was a write-off.


It is not the first time that drivers have crashed into these traffic lights which are almost in the middle of the road.

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