2 seriously injured people after the fire hose falls from the truck and hits them while walking on the sidewalk in Chapel Hill

Chapel Hill, NC (WTVD) – Two people were seriously injured after they were beaten by a fire engine hose that fell from a firefighter truck.

The city of Chapel Hill said the police responded to an incident that involved Chapel Hill Fire Fire 34 at the intersection of Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd. and Weaver Dairy Road at 3:37 pm

Preliminary investigation discovered that the driver of the fire truck spon from southern Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd. at Weaver Dairy Road’s Weaver when a hose in the engine fell and hit two people walking on a sidewalk at the intersection.

Both people were taken to UNC hospitals with serious injuries.

The authorities said the fire truck was responding with lights and sirens to a clash at the time of the incident.

The driver is on standard administrative license waiting for the results of the police investigation and the administrative investigation of the Fire Department.