Man fights for life after crashing stolen ambulance

A 46-year-old man was fighting for his life last night after a stolen ambulance he was driving crashed head-first into a school bus.

A Garda spokesman said that if it had been a short time later, “there would have been school children on the bus”.

The events unfolded after the ambulance and a crew of two paramedics arrived with a patient into the emergency department of Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital in Drogheda at lunchtime.