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Taxi smash at Buncrana's West End
21.04.09
Taxi leaves the road
and crashes into car and payphone
by Simon McGeady, Inishowen
Independent
A SERIOUS crash took place at the West End of
Buncrana Main Street in the early hours of Monday
morning when a Northern registered taxi mounted the
kerb before smashing into a parked and occupied
Toyota car.
It’s understood that the driver of the taxi was
taken into custody while the occupant of the
stationary car sustained injuries and was taken to
hospital in an ambulance.
A telephone box was destroyed in the crash, which
resulted in the shop window of Mac’s newsagents
being smashed. |
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Eunan McLaughlin, who
runs the Mac’s Newsagents and Bookshop arrived at
his place of work just before 7am yesterday morning
to open up, only to find a major crash had just
taken place outside his premises.
“The crash totally demolished the public telephone
outside my shop, the smash took the |
roots of the phone box
clean out and smashed a streetlight as well. Part of
the phonebox broke my window, which I repaired.”
Mr McLaughin said it was fortunate that no
pedestrians were caught up in the incident as the
footpath in that part of town can be occupied by
delivery people at that time of the morning. He
noted that a dent in the shutter in front of the
vacant shop adjacent to his, formerly Hegarty’s
shop.
The West End businessman praised the work of
Buncrana Town Council workers.
“They were brilliant and had cleared up the mess
very quickly, in fact some of the people coming in
for their morning paper later on did not notice that
anything had happened,” added Mr McLaughlin.
Another eye-witness was woken by the noise of the
crash and took the photograph above, which she then
gave to the Inishowen Independent. |
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