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17/09/2008
Airport Driver And Passengers Saved By String Of Heroes
Lives were saved in Dublin Airport on Tuesday following a string of heroic acts.
A major accident was firstly averted by quick-thinking passengers on a private bus who grabbed the wheel as the driver suffered a heart attack.
The driver collapsed at the wheel on the exit road near the airports hangars after picking up the tourists. They were just seconds from the busy motorway.
After the passengers laid the driver on some nearby grass, an off-duty Airport Search Unit officer, named Wesley O'Sullivan from Co Kildare, then ran to the rescue of the bus driver providing mouth to mouth resuscitation.
He was joined moments later by his airport police colleague, Richard Delaney from Swords, who assisted with chest compressions.
Upon arrival of the ambulance, a defibrillator was employed and the driver has since been transferred to Beaumont Hospital, where he is reported to be making a speedy recovery.
(DW)
A major accident was firstly averted by quick-thinking passengers on a private bus who grabbed the wheel as the driver suffered a heart attack.
The driver collapsed at the wheel on the exit road near the airports hangars after picking up the tourists. They were just seconds from the busy motorway.
After the passengers laid the driver on some nearby grass, an off-duty Airport Search Unit officer, named Wesley O'Sullivan from Co Kildare, then ran to the rescue of the bus driver providing mouth to mouth resuscitation.
He was joined moments later by his airport police colleague, Richard Delaney from Swords, who assisted with chest compressions.
Upon arrival of the ambulance, a defibrillator was employed and the driver has since been transferred to Beaumont Hospital, where he is reported to be making a speedy recovery.
(DW)
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