VIDEO: Ambulance stolen in Cambridge, chased through Halton, Toronto, Brampton. Pursuit now terminated, unit last spotted in Richmond Hill. pic.twitter.com/Nk5WR5KsX4
— Jeremy Cohn (@JeremyGlobalTV) May 28, 2017
A stolen ambulance with on-board GPS was followed through the night on a marathon joyride from Cambridge where it was taken, to a point south of Wasaga Beach where OPP disabled it with a spike-belt. A man is in custody after the six-hour, 150 kilometre escapade which ran through Halton, Toronto, Peel, East Gwillimbury and points north. It was captured on video speeding through the City by Jeremy Cohn of Global News. Waterloo Regional Police say the ambulance was grabbed just after midnight from the parking lot outside Cambridge Memorial Hospital. A woman EMS worker was in the passenger’s seat when the man leaped into the vehiocle and started the engine. The woman fled the cab before the ambulance starting moving. Because the vehicle had a GPS, the chase was called off five times for safety reasons. OPP finally managed to track it to south of Wasaga Beach and disabled it using a spike belt. A man, 24, is in jail.
