It was a day of anything but luck for Irish jockey Chris Meehan on Sunday.
It was bad enough that Meehan fell off during a hurdles race in Italy and was kicked in the face by his horse - knocking him out and leaving him with a broken nose and gash in his jaw requiring 27 stitches - but to add injury to insult his leg was broken when the ambulance that came to assist him reversed over it.
But there's another twist.
"What makes it worse is my father, brother, auntie - they're all ambulance people," Meehan told the UK's Racing Post. "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."
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