Truck crashes into school car park full of children and parents [IrishTimes]
- Published: 29 April 2010
A PRIMARY school principal has said the fact that nobody was killed when a truck crashed through the wall of the school yesterday as parents picked up children was “a miracle”.
A Scania truck crashed through the walls of Cregmore National School, Co Galway, and into a line of up to 11 cars belonging to parents and family who were collecting junior and senior infant children from the school just before 1.40pm.
Joe Kennelly said it was a miracle that nobody had died as a result of the crash.
“Never in my life have I seen anything like this. It was carnage, like a scene from Beirut and yes, it was that bad,” he said. “There were parents, grandparents, neighbours waiting to collect the young children and there must have been up to 25 cars in total parked there at the collection area.
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