Three peo­ple had to be tak­en for med­ical at­ten­tion fol­low­ing an ear­ly morn­ing ac­ci­dent in­volv­ing a fire ten­der and a pri­vate ve­hi­cle on In­de­pen­dence Square North, near the Cathe­dral of the Im­mac­u­late Con­cep­tion.

The ac­ci­dent re­sult­ed in grid­lock traf­fic in the cap­i­tal city.

Po­lice re­ports in­di­cate that around 6 am the fire truck de­part­ed the Fire Ser­vice’s Wright­son Road head­quar­ters to at­tend to an in­ci­dent in Laven­tille.

How­ev­er, as the truck was ap­proach­ing George Street, it col­lid­ed with a pri­vate mo­tor ve­hi­cle.

The crash caused the fire truck to over­turn along the road­way.

The dri­ver of the car and two fire of­fi­cers were tak­en to hos­pi­tal for treat­ment.

They were not list­ed in se­ri­ous con­di­tions.

The truck was even­tu­al­ly turned up­right lat­er in the morn­ing and was dri­ven away by fire of­fi­cers.

Fire of­fi­cials said the ac­ci­dent could lead to de­lays in their re­sponse times since the ve­hi­cle was a key com­po­nent to their ini­tial re­sponse pro­ce­dures.