{"id":61749,"date":"2025-07-13T08:15:22","date_gmt":"2025-07-13T08:15:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/61749\/"},"modified":"2025-07-13T08:15:22","modified_gmt":"2025-07-13T08:15:22","slug":"man-steals-ambulance-leads-police-on-chase-before-crashing-into-creek-bed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/61749\/","title":{"rendered":"Man steals ambulance, leads police on chase before crashing into creek bed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/v-medical-city-dallas-ambulance-stolen-5a_00.00.04.12.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-v-7d0efd03=\"\"\/> article <\/p>\n<p data-v-7d0efd03=\"\">Stolen ambulance crash (Source: Terry Van Sickle) <\/p>\n<p data-v-bd34935e=\"\"><strong>DALLAS<\/strong> &#8211; A man stole an ambulance from Medical City Dallas Hospital and led police on a chase before crashing into a guardrail and rolling into a creek bed overnight Wednesday. The suspect sustained injuries but is expected to recover and faces multiple charges.<\/p>\n<p>Stolen ambulance crash (Source: Terry Van Sickle) <\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-bd34935e=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-bd34935e=\"\">The ambulance was stolen around 1:15 a.m. Thursday from Medical City Dallas Hospital at 7777 Forest Lane, according to police.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-bd34935e=\"\">A medic was working in the back of the running ambulance when a man entered the driver&#8217;s seat and drove away. The medic was thrown from an open door and sustained minor injuries.<\/p>\n<p data-v-bd34935e=\"\">The medic reported the theft to an off-duty Dallas police officer working security at the hospital. Police tracked the ambulance as it traveled south on Interstate 45, entering Ellis County.<\/p>\n<p data-v-bd34935e=\"\">Ferris police officers attempted a traffic stop, but the ambulance fled. A short pursuit began on I-45. As the suspect entered Palmer, they lost control of the ambulance, which crashed through a guardrail and rolled down a steep embankment before landing in a creek bed.<\/p>\n<p data-v-bd34935e=\"\">The suspect became trapped in the crashed vehicle. Palmer firefighters extracted the man from the ambulance, and he was airlifted to a hospital for treatment.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-bd34935e=\"\">Police said the suspect is expected to recover.<\/p>\n<p data-v-bd34935e=\"\">He will face multiple criminal charges, including theft of the ambulance and evading arrest.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-bd34935e=\"\">What we don&#8217;t know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-bd34935e=\"\">The identity of the suspect has not been released. It&#8217;s not clear why the individual was at the hospital.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\"><b data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source:<\/b> Information in this article comes from Dallas police at the scene of the crash.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox4news.com\/tag\/us\/tx\/dallas-county\/dallas\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-bd34935e=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dallas<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox4news.com\/tag\/us\/tx\/ellis-county\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-bd34935e=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ellis County<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"article Stolen ambulance crash (Source: Terry Van Sickle) DALLAS &#8211; A man stole an ambulance from Medical City&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":61750,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5135],"tags":[5229,1596,7290,44363,50,358,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-61749","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-dallas","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-dallas","10":"tag-dallas-county","11":"tag-ellis-county","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-texas","14":"tag-tx","15":"tag-united-states","16":"tag-united-states-of-america","17":"tag-unitedstates","18":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","19":"tag-us","20":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114844934344721069","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61749","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61749"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61749\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}