TMG Digital reports that an ambulance driver is in a critical condition after crashing into a hippopotamus crossing the road in Pretoria on Monday night.  

A Life 24 ambulance was transporting a patient to Milpark hospital in Johannesburg when the hippo crossed the road.  The driver and two of his colleagues were travelling back from Limpopo.  Charl Blake of Life 24 said that the accident occurred at about 10pm as the three men were exiting Pretoria.  Two of the ambulance crew were discharged from hospital earlier on Tuesday morning.  Their colleague is still receiving treatment in high care.  The hippo was killed in the collision.

• A short report is at TimesLive

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