Texas woman leads cops on high speed chase after stealing ambulance from emergency room

A woman in Texas lead police on a wild car chase after stealing an ambulance from an El Paso emergency room, police confirmed Tuesday.

Videos of the pursuit showed the female driver in the ambulance blowing through stop lights on crowded streets, with state troopers and local police following behind her.

After sneaking into the medical vehicle at Del Sol Medical Center on the city's east side, the unidentified woman who was not a patient at the hospital, drove off with the ambulance around 8 a.m., reported local station KFOX.

For close to an hour, the woman sped on city roads and onto the highway, finally slowing down in northeast El Paso after the Texas Department of Public Safety successfully spiked the tires on the ambulance, DPS told DailyMail.com.  

The woman who stole the ambulance has not been identified. She is seen after crashing at the end of the chase 

The woman came to a stop near an apartment complex off the freeway, where an resident recorded police ordering her out of vehicle. 

'Hands up! Keep your hands up,' an officer can be heard yelling at the driver in a video shared by @therealfitfamelpaso on Instagram. 

When the woman put her hands down, police fired pepper balls at the ambulance. 

The woman continued to fumble with what appears to be a bag in her lap and eventually made her way to the passenger side of the vehicle, where she opened the door to let herself out. 

Footage shows her exiting the ambulance, moving at the speed of jello, before landing on the ground face first. 

The woman was not a patient at the hospital but snuck into the vehicle and drove away 

The El Paso Police Department and the Texas Department of Public Safety engaged in an nearly one-hour chase through Texas' sixth largest city

Police then took her into custody, but have not released her name.

Remarkably, no one was hurt due to the chase. 

The fire department is investigating how the woman was able to get access to the ambulance, especially since the agency instituted policy changes after a different ambulance was stolen in 2017.