Ambulance carrying patients crashes off B.C. highway after driver falls asleep

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Ambulance carrying patients crashes off B.C. highway after driver falls asleep
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BC Emergency Health Services says an internal investigation is underway.

Police say an ambulance carrying patients crashed off a highway last month in the Kootenays after its driver fell asleep at the wheel.

A Grand Forks man, 30, drove the ambulance off the right side of the highway after allegedly falling asleep at the wheel, police said.The two patients being transported in the ambulance did not receive any injuries and the ambulance sustained minor damage.In a statement to Castanet, BC Emergency Health Services says an "internal investigation" is underway into the crash.

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