An hour-long chase with the driver of a stolen Dallas Fire-Rescue ambulance came to an end Monday afternoon when it was revealed that the ambulance got stuck and the driver tried to overtake the police on foot.
Dallas police said the ambulance was taken Monday morning from Fire Station 53 and spotted in southeast Dallas County early in the afternoon.
The man behind the wheel of the ambulance refused to stop and led police for nearly two hours on a chase that passed through Dallas County in northern Collin County and through the cities of Plano, McKinney and Princeton.
Sometimes the driver deliberately drove into oncoming traffic, but no accidents were reported in connection with the chase.
It was back in McKinney, where the driver again tried to lose the police, the sheriff’s deputy delegates and the state troops in a neighborhood, who regularly drove off-road and tried to escape across lawns.
The ambulance apparently pulled out a curb and the driver quickly saved and tried to overtake the police on foot while also trying to stop his falling pants.
Moments later, the man was cornered in a fenced area and arrested by several officers near Joyce Way and Tension Lane.
Officers at the Dallas Police Department, Sheriff’s Office in Dallas County and Texas Troopers, and a number of other agencies, helped end the chase.
Ambulance chase
- At about 1:10 p.m., the chase began in southeast Dallas along Interstate 20 near Lawson. The driver is on his way to Kaufman County.
- The turn then turns into Forney and goes back along I-20 to I-635 where it is northbound to US 75.
- Around 2:05 p.m., the driver is on U.S. Route 75 in the direction of Plano.
- Just before 2:10 p.m., the driver left the highway and entered a neighborhood driving through back roads.
- At about 2:11 p.m., the driver avoided several Dallas police officers, delegates from the Dallas sheriff and Texas state troops to try to stop the area from exiting.
- At about 2:18 p.m., the driver climbed into Texas 121 at McKinney, but left shortly thereafter.
- Around 2:30 p.m., the driver is on oncoming traffic on U.S. Highway 380 near Princeton.
- At 14:37, the driver on the American direction 380 was heading west.
- At 14:43, the driver took the ambulance off the road to avoid nail strips – a retractable device used by police to flatten car tires.
- At 14:55, the driver crashed while sitting in the ambulance with the field trying to stop his pants but trying to escape on foot from the officers. The driver was arrested moments later near Joyce Way and Tension Lane.