Advertisement Emergency vehicle operator, 5 others injured in massive Elkridge crash Crash involved tractor-trailer, 2 cars that were stopped for other crash Share Shares Copy Link Copy

Six people were injured when a Howard County ambulance collided with a car and a tractor-trailer that had been involved in another crash Monday night in Elkridge, officials said.Mobile users, click here for video from the sceneThe crash happened around 7 p.m. as the ambulance was driving north on Washington Boulevard near Kit Kat Road. Howard County police said the ambulance was responding to an emergency call for extra help in Baltimore County and that it had its emergency equipment activated at the time.Investigators said the tractor-trailer was stopped across three lanes of Washington Boulevard because it had crashed into a car that had tried to turn left from Kit Kat Road. Officials said two other cars were stopped in the northbound side of the road because of it.The ambulance then came over a hill and crashed into the back of one of those stopped cars, a Hyundai Sonata, and then hit the trailer portion of the big rig. Officials said a chain reaction caused the Sonata to hit the back of the second stopped car, a Chrysler 300.Police said it took rescue crews an hour to get EMT ambulance driver Jay Stanton out of the vehicle. He was taken to Shock Trauma in Baltimore, where he was listed in stable condition early Tuesday. Two other EMTs in the ambulance, Keith Mariner and Khadija Daniels, were taken to Howard County General Hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.Three others involved in the crash were also taken to Howard County General Hospital with non-life-threatening injuries, including Hyundai driver Opal Barnes, 45, of Elkridge, and her 11-year-old daughter; and Chrysler driver Shyann Pearson, 63, of Catonsville.Police said the driver of the tractor-trailer, Mario Benitez, 66, of Rockville, was not injured.It's unclear if the person in the car that the tractor-trailer had originally crashed into was injured.All lanes of Washington Boulevard between Montevideo Road and Brookdale Drive were shut down for about five hours while the crash was investigated.That investigation is ongoing.Stay with WBALTV.com and 11 News for more details as they become available.WBALTV.com editor Katie Lange contributed to this article10047516