TARRYTOWN, N.Y.—A patient stole the ambulance that had taken him to a New York City hospital and took it on a 25-mile joyride that ended when state police used a spike strip to stop him, authorities said.
The incident unfolded early Thursday after a 47-year-old man was taken to Mount Sinai Morningside Hospital in Manhattan for observation, police said.
The ambulance he had ridden in was sitting outside the hospital unlocked, unoccupied and with the keys in the ignition when the man left the facility just before 5 a.m., a New York City police spokesperson said. The man got in and drove off, police said….