A West Virginia woman died on Thanksgiving Day after she stole an ambulance from a hospital emergency room in the capital and crashed it into the Kanawha River, authorities said.
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Elizabeth Reed of Hinton was a patient at Charleston Area Medical Center General Hospital when Cedar Grove Volunteer Fire Department Ambulance Unit 64 seized just after 12:30 a.m., Charleston Police Department officials said. in a press release. Reed then began driving onto Kanawha Boulevard.
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Five minutes later, it struck a concrete barrier near Chesapeake Avenue and went over the embankment into the Kanawha River, police said. Reed was pronounced dead around 10 a.m. after a search and rescue team for her located her inside the ambulance, authorities said.
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The Charleston Police Department is still investigating.