A nurse saved the life of a bus driver who suffered a heart attack while driving through rush- hour traffic on Monday, Irish Mirror reported.

Aoife McGivney was sitting in the downstairs area of the number 16 Dublin Bus listening to music on her way to work at the Mater Hospital when she realised the bus had broken a red light and was continuing to roll down Westmoreland Street towards O’Connell Bridge.

“We crashed into a cyclist and we could feel the bus going over the bike,” Ms McGivney told The Irish Times. “We thought there was someone under the bus so everyone started screaming.”

Ms McGivney approached the front of the bus where she discovered the driver was unconscious. She tried shaking the man to lift his foot from the accelerator and eventually succeeded in moving his leg which allowed the bus to roll to a halt. Meanwhile, a man outside the bus had pulled the emergency lever to open the bus doors.

Aoife got two fellow passengers to help her lift the stricken driver out of the bus and on to the pavement.

The driver then went into full cardiac arrest and Aoife performed CPR on him until emergency services arrived.