A 19-year-old has died in a car crash involving a police car and ambulance in Suffolk.
Suffolk Police said the teenager was in the carriageway on the A14 near Rougham, Suffolk, when the collision happened but that neither the police car nor ambulance were on emergency calls.
In a statement the force said the crash happened at around 4.35am on Sunday when a car, followed by a police vehicle and then an ambulance, were all involved in a collision with a man who was in the carriageway.
A police spokesman said: The man sadly died at the scene and he is believed to be 19-years-old and from the local area, however he has not been formally identified. His next of kin have been informed.
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Neither the police car or the ambulance were responding to an emergency at the time and as such were not travelling on “blue light” runs. The police vehicle was conveying a person under arrest to custody and the ambulance had a patient on board, however no one in either of these vehicles, or the other car involved, sustained any injuries.
The westbound carriageway was closed while a collision investigation took place, reopening at 2.30pm.
Suffolk Police have informed the Independent Office for Police Conduct about this incident, as per standard procedure.
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