Two people have died after a car and ambulance collided south of Cambridge

 The driver of a rescue vehicle harmed in a deadly mishap south of Cambridge has kicked the bucket.

The Cambridge Volunteer Fire Unit was gotten down at around 3.40 am on Wednesday morning to an impact between an emergency vehicle and a vehicle on SH1 close to Karapiro.

The driver of the vehicle passed on at the scene, in an accident the detachment chief is calling the most terrible they have seen for quite a while.

The fundamentally harmed driver of the rescue vehicle was transported to Waikato Medical clinic yet police said in an explanation after 5 pm that they had passed on in the emergency clinic. One more rescue vehicle staff part, who was inside the vehicle at that point, was tolerably harmed.

The rescue vehicle had been traveling south and the vehicle was traveling north. There were no patients in the rescue vehicle.

The scene when sunshine broke over the rustic stretch of street was one of obliteration. A silver Audi vehicle lay in a pool of released coolant, the natural state of a St John rescue vehicle close by.

Yet, rather than conveying help, it lay with its motor essentially broken down and wheels folded underneath the taxi from the viciousness of the impact.

Cambridge fire boss Dennis Chase said that when the team saw crisis administrations were involved, they clicked into alternate stuff.

"We treat everyone the equivalent however when you see a crisis vehicle you think 'gracious golly'. You trust everyone is alright."

The detachment took two salvage trucks to the scene.

"There was one [person] caught in every vehicle, so we removed the individual in the rescue vehicle who was in a basic manner and we made the scene safe."

He said it was likely the most horrendously terrible mishap they had been to this year.

"With the new [Cambridge segment of the Waikato] freeway, we don't get the head-ons like we used to so they have dialed back no doubt.