SALEM, Va. — A First Call Ambulance Service EMT and a patient are injured after the ambulance they were riding in overturned when the driver fell asleep behind the wheel.
Police said the EMS provider, Jonathan Douglas Jones, was driving on Interstate 81 near Salem when he nodded off and ran to the left side of the road. When he realized it, he overcorrected and ran off the right side of the road, striking an embankment, Roanoke Times reported.
The 18-year-old EMT, Jessica Lynn Stump, was thrown from the back of the ambulance. The extent of her injuries is unknown.
The 43-year-old patient was taken to the hospital as well.
Jones was issued a summons for reckless driving.