Sometimes it's just not your day...
Jockey Chris Meehan run over by ambulance after getting kicked in face by horse
Helena Horton
5 July 2016 • 4:26pm
jockey suffered a bizarre double stroke of bad luck, breaking his nose in a fall and then suffering a broken leg when he was run over by the ambulance sent to help him.
Chris Meehan, a Northern Ireland jockey, was knocked out when he was unshipped by his mount during a hurdle race at the Merano track in Italy on Sunday. He sustained a bad gash to his jaw as well as the nose injury.
"The racecourse ambulance came up alongside us and reversed up onto my leg," Meehan told The Racing Post.
"I started screaming. It broke it straight away."
His father trains ambulance drivers and many of his family are involved in the service.
He said: "What makes it worse is my father, brother, auntie, they're all ambulance people.
"My father actually teaches most people in Northern Ireland and England how to drive the ambulance! It's bizarre, you couldn't make it up."
Mr Meehan, who has had 13 winners in his career, described the ordeal, told the Racing Post: "The starter came over to help me because I was on my back and choking on my blood,
"He put me in the recovery position, with my right leg out straight."
However, at this point, the ambulance ran over his stretched-out leg, breaking it in the process.
"Everyone around me had to push it off me. You have to laugh really," he added.
The jockey needed 27 stitches to his jaw and is due to fly back to Northern Ireland today for surgery on his leg and face.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/201...over-by-ambulance-after-breaking-nose-in-bad/