3 Disney Workers Hurt as Cart Crashes

An electric golf cart carrying five Disneyland maintenance and custodial workers hit a curb and overturned early Tuesday morning, injuring three of the workers, authorities said.

One worker complaining of pain to his right arm and back was taken by ambulance to UCI Medical Center in Orange, Anaheim Police Sgt. Joe Vargas said.

Two other workers suffering wrist and foot pain were taken to St. Joseph Hospital in Orange, he said.

Robin Butler, an Anaheim Fire Department spokeswoman, said a Disneyland security guard briefly delayed the admittance of a second ambulance to the park.

The guard questioned why another ambulance was coming, Butler said.

But Butler said the delay was not significant and the ambulance was responding to injuries that were not life threatening.

Disneyland spokesman John McClintock said the second ambulance “was not stopped at the gate. In fact, he was not held up at all.”

The ambulance was delayed, McClintock said, because the driver sped through the park’s Ball Road gate without stopping for directions and got lost in the park.

The response of emergency services to the park in the event of an accident has come under increasing scrutiny since the death of a tourist on Christmas Eve and park officials’ subsequent vow to cooperate fully with police and paramedics.

Vargas said that Anaheim police were at the scene immediately after Tuesday’s accident but that they quickly determined they had no jurisdiction.

Disneyland is investigating the accident.