Teen dies after highway jump from SC ambulance

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Teen Dies After Highway Jump From S.C. Ambulance

Monday , March 01, 2010

GREENVILLE, S.C. - A teenager has died after jumping out of a moving

ambulance on an interstate highway in South Carolina.

Multiple media outlets reported the 16-year-old boy died shortly after

the leap near Greenville while be was being driven to a psychiatric

hospital in Columbia

Coroner Mike Ellis says the teen was restrained on a gurney in the back

of a Greenville Hospital Systems ambulance when he loosened his

restraints, moved past an emergency technician, opened the door and

jumped.

Emergency workers treated the teen before taking him back to the

hospital in Greenville, where he was pronounced dead minutes later.

An autopsy was planned Monday.

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Subject: Aaarrggghhh ! ! ! Teen Dies

Always envisaged this happening

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Teen Dies After Highway Jump From S.C. Ambulance

Monday , March 01, 2010

GREENVILLE, S.C. - A teenager has died after jumping out of a moving

ambulance on an interstate highway in South Carolina.

Multiple media outlets reported the 16-year-old boy died shortly after

the leap near Greenville while be was being driven to a psychiatric

hospital in Columbia

Coroner Mike Ellis says the teen was restrained on a gurney in the back

of a Greenville Hospital Systems ambulance when he loosened his

restraints, moved past an emergency technician, opened the door and

jumped.

Emergency workers treated the teen before taking him back to the

hospital in Greenville, where he was pronounced dead minutes later.

An autopsy was planned Monday.