If there was no ambulance there, someone injured may either have been taken away already, or an ambulance may not have attended. In either case it may well not have been serious. The scene you saw sounds unusual.
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If there was no ambulance there, someone injured may either have been taken away already, or an ambulance may not have attended. In either case it may well not have been serious. The scene you saw sounds unusual.