US boy, 16, dies trying to jump from ambulance
12 April 2012
A teenager was killed jumping out of a moving ambulance on a highway in South Carolina.
The 16-year-old boy was being driven to a psychiatric hospital near Greenville, in the north-west of the state, and died shortly after he tried to escape.
Coroner Mike Ellis said the boy was restrained in the back of the ambulance but loosened his bonds, pushed past an emergency technician, opened the door and jumped.
Emergency workers treated the teenager before taking him back to hospital in Greenville, where he was pronounced dead.
