REISTERSTOWN, Md. — A serious crash last night involving an ambulance and fuel tanker truck in Reisterstown.
WATCH: Video: Fuel tanker truck collides with Carroll County ambulance in Reisterstown
WMAR-2 News confirmed two paramedics with the Gamber Community Fire Company in Carroll County were involved.
Both were helicoptered to University of Maryland Shock Trauma.
Fire spokesman Clay Myers said each member is expected to survive.
The medic crew was traveling with lights and siren through an intersection at Westminster Pike and Butler Road when they were t-boned.
"I heard a big loud noise," 9-year-old Juan Hernandez, who lives nearby, said. "I was nervous and speechless because I have never seen this like that."
"I mean there could have been an explosion that wiped out an entire block," attorney David Ellin said. "This could have ended up a lot worse."
WMAR-2 News obtained real time video footage of the crash captured from his office, which sits at the southeast corner of the intersection.
At the time, Myers said the Carroll County-based ambulance was headed to a 911 call in neighboring Baltimore County.
Police say other vehicles were involved injuring seven people total. Another two, in addition to the injured paramedics, were taken to the hospital.
Ellin has provided the County's Crash Team with the video, which has taken over the investigation into the crash.
By the numbers
The intersection sees multiple crashes a year sometimes double digits.
It's where three major highways intersect: Route 30, Route 140 and I-795.
Ellin has representing five cases for clients who have been involved in wrecks there, sometimes simply because of proximity.
“I had one one day where they just literally walked out of their car and came and knocked on our door and said, 'Can you represent me? I'm right out front, just had the accident,'" he recalled.
This year there have been seven recorded crashes so far, according to Maryland State Police data. Five with injuries, though no fatalities are reported.
CRASH HISTORY AT OR NEAR WESTMINSTER PIKE AND BUTLER ROAD:
2025- 7 (5 with injuries)
2024- 15 (5 with injuries)
2023- 11
2022- 9
2021- 7
2020- 8
2019- 14
As the third most populous county in Maryland, Baltimore County has had the second-most crashes in the state in 2025 at 11, 812. Prince George's County has the most with 12,143.
There have been 34 crash-related deaths and 2,586 crashes with injuries on Baltimore County roads this year.
