BRIDGETON, N.J. — A woman has been arrested for crashing her vehicle into the emergency room at Inspira Health Center Bridgeton on New Year’s Eve.
April Love, 38, was arrested for driving her Kia through the doors of the hospital’s emergency room ambulance bay, travelling about 60 feet down the hospital hallway and nearly striking a security officer, reports NBC Philadelphia. The security officer sustained minor injuries.
The incident happened December 31 at about 11:30 p.m.
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Court documents say that earlier that day she was upset at a relative’s home and wanted to be admitted to the hospital for a crisis, reports 6ABC. Love said no one would help her, so she called police. Once officers arrived, however, she allegedly refused to take a trip to the hospital. She said she wanted to drive herself.
After law enforcement left, authorities say Love got in her car and crashed into two vehicles in Seabrook before driving to the hospital to get help and then crashing through the emergency room entrance.
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According to the criminal complaint, as she was driving, Love saw Inspira Health Center Bridgeton but thought no one would help her, so she drove through the entrance’s sliding doors in hopes of being knocked out by her car’s airbags.
The crash caused about $135,000 in damage, reports the Courier Post.
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Although patient care at Inspira Health Center Bridgeton was not affected, ambulances were diverted to other facilities for approximately four hours.
Love has been charged with assault by a motor vehicle, endangering another person, and criminal mischief.
