Patient Dies In Ambulance Crash

DAYTON, OH—Police say a dialysis patient being taken by ambulance to a hospital in Dayton died after the vehicle crashed into a concrete retaining wall on the highway.

Dayton Assistant Fire Chief Jim Beech says the private ambulance crashed Wednesday after trying to avoid some cardboard boxes on Interstate 75.

Police say the 66-year-old female patient died after arriving at Miami Valley Hospital.

It was not immediately known if the woman died from injuries suffered in the crash or because of medical issues.

Dayton police Lt. Robert Chabali says investigators will have to await an autopsy to determine the woman’s cause of death.

Beech says two other people inside the ambulance suffered minor injuries.

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