Patient Seriously Injured in Stolen Ambulance Crash

Police say a patient stole a Coastal Medical Transport Systems ambulance from the Hospital for Behavioral Medicine in Worcester shortly after 8 p.m. Sunday and drove it into neighboring West Boylston, where it crashed less than a mile away. The patient sustained serious, potentially life-threatening injuries and was taken to a hospital. No ambulance employees or other people were reported injured. Worcester and West Boylston police, along with Massachusetts State Police, are investigating the theft and crash; the patient’s identity and the circumstances that enabled the theft have not been released.