The ambulance with its back wheel off
Louth TD Seamus Kirk has called on the Minister for Health James Reilly to launch an investigation into how the back wheel managed to fall off an ambulance in Dundalk yesterday.
The vehicle became stranded at the Xerox junction in Dundalk yesterday morning after the rear passenger wheel fell off.
There have been reports that the vehicle had 400,000 kilometres on the clock.
The Fianna Fáil deputy said the incident could have been very serious had it occurred on the motorway or if a patient had been in transport at the time.
Thankfully for all concerned there was no patient in the ambulance at the time of its malfunction as it had just brought someone to Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital in Drogheda and was returning to base in the Louth County Hospital.
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