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JUAB COUNTY, Utah — An ambulance paramedic injured in a rollover accident while transporting a patient was still in critical condition Tuesday afternoon.
The accident occurred Friday on northbound I-15 near 12000 South in Draper around 2:30 a.m., according to Utah Highway Patrol. Juab County EMTs, Elton Castleman and Jodi Jones, were transporting a psychiatric patient in an ambulance when he caused the vehicle to roll, UHP Lt. Jeff Nigbur said.
“He was in the back and he asked for the lights to be turned out as he was being transported,” Nigbur said. “Somehow he got out of his restraints and pushed the other ambulance employee aside, and he actually kind of crawled through that little back window that you can open up in the ambulance… and he got halfway through there. He initially grabbed the keys first… and then he grabbed the steering wheel, which caused the ambulance to roll.”
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