Garda drove ambulance as medic tended to injured child

A garda had to drive an ambulance with an injured child to hospital last week because of a shortage of paramedic staff on duty.

The Meath garda was forced to take the wheel as the only paramedic on board tended to the patient.

The shocking incident occurred near Dunsany, Co Meath, when a car containing three children and a woman veered off the road and plummeted down a 10m drop before hitting a tree.