BATON ROUGE – An ambulance rushed a teenager to the hospital after crashing a stolen truck into a tree off Greenwell Street Friday afternoon.

The scene was taped off and the Baton Rouge Police Department traffic homicide division was called to investigate.  Police have not released specifics about the crash, but video recorded by WBRZ showed a truck crashed into a tree. Police did not release where the truck was stolen from at the time of this post. 

Witnesses tell News 2's Brett Buffington that the driver was 15 years old.

This neighbor heard the crash, when the stolen truck hit the tree. A tree that stopped that truck from slamming into her house. @WBRZ pic.twitter.com/n6VCVSHDvm

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— Brett Buffington (@BrettBuffington) January 27, 2017

This is a developing story and will be updated as more information becomes available.