A WOMAN and her young family escaped serious injury when their car collided with a fire engine.
The smash is the second in as many weeks involving an emergency vehicle on route to a call out.
The emergency tender was on its was to the Carter Bequest Hospital, on Cambridge Road, Middlesbrough, around 11.45am on Thursday.
As the pump, from Middlesbrough Fire Station, travelled down Ormesby Road, at Berwick Hills, it collided with a car pulling out from the Kwik Save supermarket.
The driver, a young women, and a number of children all walked away shocked but unscathed.
A fire brigade spokesman said an investigation was underway.
Last week a fire tender collided with a police car in the centre of Middlesbrough as both were answering an emergency call.
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