Man dies as car crashes through wall into tree

A HOUSE OWNER described how helpless he felt after a car containing three people spun out of control, ploughed through a wall and ended up overturned in his front garden.

“I knew one of them was dead by the time I got out. I could do nothing because the car was turned upside down and crushed down on top of them,” Michael Hayes said.

Mr Hayes and his wife Mary were woken by a loud noise at 5.30am yesterday after the car veered out of control on the main Dublin to Cork road and ploughed through the wall of their front garden at Rathcormac, Co Cork.