In one of those strange situations that wouldn’t be believable as fiction, a UPS driver found himself in a catch-22 yesterday.

In a odd twist, a United Parcel Service driver was on his way to deliver parts to Cheshire Medical Center in Keene when his van was in a serious crash involving two tractor-trailer trucks on Route 9 at Chesterfield Hill, police said.

The driver’s name and severity of his injuries were unavailable this morning.

The driver was taken to Cheshire Medical Center by ambulance with a head injury, but the hospital couldn’t do some of the tests he needed because one of its machines was down, police said.

And the parts to fix that machine were in the man’s wrecked truck on Route 9.

Fortunately, after a brief delay they were able to retrieve the parts and perform the tests.

Instead of sending the driver to Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon, someone was sent to get the parts out of the truck, they were installed, and the machine was put to work, police said.

I wonder if UPS Tracking has a code for this situation?

Link via Engadget.