PARAMEDICS have been praised after bringing an articulated lorry driver back to life with seven defibrilator shocks.
 

The driver, aged in his 50s and from Tiptree, was travelling along in his Sainsbury’s lorry when he fell ill at the wheel.

The lorry swerved back and forth over the road hitting furniture left at the side of the road and nearly colliding with an ambulance out on an emergency call.

The paramedics chased down the lorry before rushing over and jumping into the cab to apply the handbrake before getting to work on the patient, who was in cardiac arrest.
 

For more than 30 minutes East of England Ambulance Service paramedic Sean Gallagher and emergency medical technician Kerry Sage fought to bring him back to life by peforming emergency resuscitation and repeated shocks to the heart.
 

And their efforts worked as he regained a pulse and began breathing again.
 

The dramatic events took place at about 9.40pm on Friday, April 12, in Dunmow Road, Bishop’s Stortford.
 

The patient is now recovering in Papworth Hospital, a specialist heart and lung hospital in Cambridgeshire.
 

Anyone who knows the victim please contact the Gazette on 01206 508157.