TV drama helps bus driver revival

Zoe Price says she is a big fan of Casualty and ER

A passenger helped save a bus driver who had a heart attack - thanks to watching Casualty and ER on TV.

Zoe Price, 22, a care worker from Aberdare, dialled 999 after the driver collapsed and the bus bumped into a car.

"I'd seen it on the telly," said Ms Price, who has no first aid training and helped give cardio-pulmonary resuscitation (CPR).

The driver, 51, was taken to hospital and is said to be improving.

Ms Price said: "I'd just finished work and was catching the bus home and the driver suffered a heart attack.

"We had a bump into a car, luckily no-one was injured. I saw he was blue and wasn't breathing and I dialled 999."

'Tired'

With the help from another passenger, she pulled him to the floor of the bus and helped maintain a heartbeat until an ambulance arrived a few minutes later.

"The emergency services said CPR to me - I'd seen it on the telly.

"I didn't think twice about it, I didn't know how to do and said that straight away - I was lucky a nurse came from across the road and when she was tired, I carried on doing CPR with him. I tell people it wasn't just me."

Ms Price said she had been told the driver, who was taken to Prince Charles Hospital, Merthyr, was improving.

"Last I heard he's getting better and is sitting up and trying to eat, which is good news."