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Ky. patient overpowers, strands ambulance crew on highway

The man took off in the stolen ambulance and was arrested after police recovered the crashed vehicle

SHELBY COUNTY, Ky. — A patient was arrested Tuesday after overpowering EMTs during a transport, and leaving them on the side of the highway before taking off in a stolen ambulance.

The man was being taken to the University of Louisville Hospital for evaluation when he became combative, police told wlky.com. He left the EMS professions on the side of 1-64 westbound in Franklin County.

Police arrested him after recovering the crashed ambulance in Shelby County.