The passenger of a car has died after the vehicle they were in struck a Fairfax County, Virginia, ambulance that was on its way to an emergency.

It happened Tuesday afternoon at Worldgate Drive and Alton Square in Herndon.

A Fairfax County ambulance with its “full emergency equipment activated” was trying to turn onto Alton Square, but the driver of a 2007 Hyundai failed to yield and struck the ambulance, according to news release from police.

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The car’s passenger, 35-year-old Irvin Escobar Lujuan, of Sterling, was taken to the

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