Newman

—Plaintiffs recovered damages for personal injuries to Anna Newman and for injuries to a Ford automobile belonging to plaintiffs, resulting from a collision between the defendant’s ambulance and plaintiffs’ automobile at the intersection of 25th and Main Streets, Los Angeles. Main Street is sixty-nine feet between curbs at the intersection. The ambulance was empty until after the accident and was not answering a call. It was a long, heavy machine, having a 149-inch wheel base and weighing four thousand five hundred pounds. It was traveling in a northerly direction at a high rate of speed, estimated at thirty-five to forty miles per hour, straddling the east rail of the double-track street railway on Main Street. The machine driven by plaintiff Frank Newman was proceeding westerly on 25th Street and entered Main Street, in low gear, at six miles per hour, and was going across the intersection at that speed until near the east rail of the last track when, hearing the loud and insistent ringing of the ambulance gong, it was stopped when the ambulance was, as some witnesses testified, about one hundred feet away, and remained standing until the collision. The ambulance driver applied…