Probe as gardaí leave hospital after crash before being breathalysed

THE Garda watchdog is investigating the case of two plain-clothes gardaí who were involved in an accident on the M50 motorway but who left an ambulance before they were breathalysed.

The incident followed the crash on the M50 on the evening of February 6 last, when the unmarked Garda vehicle, understood to be a Ford Mondeo, crashed with a Hyundai Santa Fe.

Gardaí were called to the scene and the occupants of the car were taken by ambulance to Tallaght General Hospital, but on arriving at the hospital both officers left the ambulance.