EMT, 22, is killed responding to last call of her career

[Jazzy]

An emergency medical technician was on her last shift when she was killed in a crash.

Hinal Patel, 22, of Piscataway, New Jersey, and her partner with Spotswood Emergency Services, Mark Seube, 24, were responding to a call on Saturday.

Seube was driving while Patel sat in the front seat passenger side.

But while going through an intersection with the lights and siren blaring in East Brunswick, New Jersey, a Toyota Prius failed to stop for the ambulance and crashed into it.

It overturned the emergency vehicle, which then slid into another car, according to police.

Patel was killed instantly. It was her last shift before she would take some time off before heading to graduate school at Rutgers University in the fall.

Seube was injured but not seriously.

The driver of the Prius, Kathleen Meade, 58, of East Brunswick, was not injured at all, according to police.

Friends and family expressed deep shock that Patel who wanted to attend medical school after getting her degree from the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences at Rutgers was killed on her last day on the job.

'She's saved thousands and thousands of people. I just wish someone had a chance to help her,' her friend Bianca Patel (no relation) told NJ.com.

Her brother, Neel, told the outlet that his sister was dedicated to medicine and had not become an EMT just to improve her resume.

'She was truly passionate about (being an) EMT and what she was doing,' he said.

Bianca Patel says that the day her friend died was supposed to be her last call before she went to graduate school.

'She had said 'Today's going to be a long day,'' her pal said.

The crash is currently under investigation and no charges have been filed.

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What a brilliant, beautiful, compassionate young woman! God bless her and her loved ones. It's a loss for the whole world.