Hapless Merano ambulance driver: please get in the sea, immediately. There is no longer a place for you on terra firma.You would think jockey Chris Meehan's day couldn't possibly get any worse after being kicked in the face by a horse but there was further disaster to come for the jet-setting hoop.Meehan was nearing the end of a summer stint in italy when he was unseated in a hurdle race on Sunday and subsequently had his face rearranged by a horse.The blow initially knocked Meehan out, broke his nose and left a gash in his jaw requiring 27 stitches... but there was to be an even greater sting in the tail.The ambulance that came to Meehan's aid inexplicably ran over his leg and snapped it.

"The starter came over to help me because I was on my back and choking on my blood," Belfast Live reported Meehan as saying.



"He put me in the recovery position, with my right leg out straight.

"As if that wasn't bad enough, the racecourse ambulance came up alongside us and reversed up onto my leg. They stopped it on top of my leg so I started screaming; it broke it straight away.

"Everyone around me had to push it off me. You have to laugh really."





Ironically, Chris Meehan's father teaches people how to drive ambulances.



Meehan, who hails from Co Down in Northern Ireland, now faces a two-month stint on the sidelines thanks to the ambulance driver's unfortunate antics.



“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," said Meehan.



Young Co Down jockey kicked in the face by horse before ambulance breaks his leg