MOTORWAY QUICKLY CLEARED AFTER HELICOPTER LANDING

Date Published: 29-Dec-2012

Traffic was disrupted on a stretch of the motorway outside Ballinasloe for a time today when a helicopter landed there to take a patient off an ambulance which had broken down to a hospital in Galway.

The helicoptor landed on the motorway past the Cappataggle Toll Bridge shortly before miday and traffic was disrupted for a time on the motorway.

The patient was taken from the ambulance to University Hospital Galway and traffic flow on the Galway-Dublin motorway quickly returned to normal.