By Anita Hassan
Houston Chronicle
HARRIS COUNTY, Texas — A man was struck by a vehicle and killed this evening after he jumped out of the back of a moving ambulance on an east Harris County freeway, authorities said.
The North Channel Emergency Medical Service ambulance responded to a call and picked up the unidentified man as a patient from a location near Freeport Street and East Freeway around 6:48 p.m., authorities said.
As the ambulance was driving down the East Freeway near East Sam Houston Parkway North, the man jumped out of the ambulance and began running down the freeway, authorities said.
He was then struck by at least one vehicle and killed, authorities said. His identity is pending an autopsy by the Harris County Medical Examiner’s Office.
It is unknown at this time why the man jumped out of the vehicle. Officials at North Channel EMS, a nonprofit organization that provides emergency medical services to unincorporated Harris County, declined to comment.