Woman Crashes Stolen Ambulance On Gulf Freeway: Police

HOUSTON, TX – A woman who crashed a stolen ambulance on the Gulf Freeway early Monday morning is in the hospital and could face criminal charges, according to police. Officials at Ben Taub Hospital called police about 4 a.m. and said a woman had taken an ambulance parked outside the hospital.

Authorities began tracking the the ambulance from an iPad signal inside, which led them to Braeswood Boulevard in southwest Houston, where police found the pinging iPad had been discarded.

Less than an hour after the ambulance was reported stolen, police and EMS were called to Loop 610 and the Gulf Freeway where witnesses said an ambulance had clipped the back of a pickup truck, hit a concrete barrier and flipped.

Police arrived and found the woman trapped inside the ambulance with debris strewn along the freeway. Fire and EMS were able to remove the woman from the wreckage. She was taken to a nearby hospital, according to media reports.

No one else was injured in the crash that tied up traffic in the area for several hours. The incident remains under investigation.

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