New York Girl on Way to School Struck by Ambulance

NEW YORK --

A 15-year-old girl was in serious condition Monday after being hit by an ambulance in the Midwood section of Brooklyn.

She had earlier been reported dead.

School officials said the teenager, a student at Public School 99, was walking to school around 8 a.m. when she was hit at Coney Island Avenue and Avenue K. The ambulance was responding to a call at the time of the crash.

A crossing guard said that the ambulance approached with its lights and sirens on while the girl was crossing the street. After she was struck, ambulance workers put the girl in the ambulance and took her to the hospital, the crossing guard said.

The ambulance was from New York Presbyterian Hospital.

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