CIVILIAN -"distracted by cell phone" STRIKES VIRGINIA FIRE APPARATUS OPERATING AT A CAR FIRE-FIREFIGHTER INJURED Friday, January 8, 2010  - Two people were injured this morning when a car slammed into the rear of a Chesterfield County fire truck that had stopped on northbound Chippenham Parkway to respond to a vehicle fire. Mauri E. Phillips, 20, told a state trooper that she was momentarily distracted and took her eyes briefly off the road before looking up to see the fire truck parked in the right-hand lane with its emergency lights activated. Phillips told the trooper that she may have been distracted by her ringing cell phone A woman driving the car that collided with the fire truck was taken to VCU Medical Center with serious but non-life threatening injuries, said Sgt. Thomas Molnar, a State Police spokesman. In addition, one of the firefighters aboard the truck was taken to Chippenham Hospital with unspecified injuries, Molnar said. The crash occurred about 11:15 a.m. after the fire truck responded to a possible vehicle fire on northbound Chippenham Parkway, about a quarter mile south of the Midlothian Turnpike interchange. The fire truck was parked in the right-hand lane with its emergency lights activated, Molnar said. The crew had been on scene about five minutes before a woman driving a Ford Escort ran into the rear of the truck, Molnar said. It wasn’t immediately known how fast she was driving. The speed limit along that stretch is 55 mph. The injured firefighter was standing outside the truck on the vehicle’s exterior steps when the crash occurred. The wreck has caused a 2-mile traffic backup on northbound Chippenham Parkway. Molnar said charges are pending against the Ford Escort driver.