Patient Jumps Out of Ambulance, Steals Another

[MMiz]

Patient Jumps Out of Ambulance, Steals Another


Police said a patient being transported by an ambulance jumped out and stole a different ambulance for a joyride Saturday morning.

Police said Darren Ethedge, 31, of northeast Washington, was high on PCP and was being transported by a DC Fire EMS ambulance at 9:30 a.m. Saturday when the vehicle got into a minor crash in the 300 block of Florida Avenue, Northeast. As is protocol, a second ambulance wass called to transport the patient.

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[DesertMedic66]

Well that's not gonna be a fun incident report to fill out.

 

[MMiz]

How does this keep happening to EMS providers? Surely there is a solution.

 

[DesertMedic66]

Make the ambulances harder to drive so that normal people don't know how?

Other than that just lock your doors all the time.