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Patient takes ambulance for joy ride, crashes into bus

The driver was taken into custody after hitting the University of Miami transport bus

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David Bozeman.

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By David J. Neal
Miami-Herald

MIAMI-DADE, Fla. — A man accused of stealing an ambulance crashed it into a University of Miami bus, according to Miami-Dade police.

Miami-Dade police say the ambulance, from the private company Miami-Dade Ambulance Service, sat under the overhang of Jackson Behavioral Health Hospital when David Bozeman hopped in and drove away around 9:45 a.m. Monday.

Bozeman’s ride ended nearby when he crashed the ambulance into a University of Miami patient transport bus.

The transport bus driver was transported to the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.

Miami police responding to the crash discovered Bozeman wasn’t an authorized driver of the ambulance and arrested him.

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