Man leaps from ambulance on I-5

Glenn County Observer

A Redding man suffered major injuries late Wednesday afternoon when he jumped from a moving ambulance on northbound Interstate 5 south of County Road 33, near Artois.

According to Officer Jaime Vasquez of the California Highway Patrol, at about 4:50 p.m. on Wednesday, Nov. 29, Joshua D. Rossman, 32, of Redding, was being transported Falcon Critical Care from Sacramento to Redding. He was traveling in a 2014 Ford E350 ambulance.

For unknown reasons, Rossman jumped out of the moving ambulance and came to rest in the slow lane of northbound I-5. He sustained major injuries and was transported by helicopter to Enloe Medical Center in Chico.

Both northbound lanes were shut down for the accident.

Officers cleared the scene at about 6:20 p.m.