Ambulance carrying transplant patient runs out of fuel

The National Ambulance Service has launched an investigation after one of its vehicles apparently ran out of fuel while rushing a patient to hospital.

The ambulance had left a hospital in the South on Thursday to transfer the patient to a Dublin hospital to undergo what is believed to have been a lung transplant operation.

However, it ground to a halt near Newlands Cross on the outskirts of the capital at about midnight after it ran out of diesel.