Miracle escape as milk truck crashes in gardens

IT WAS another weekend of carnage on the nation’s roads but two families in the North had a miraculous escape yesterday when a milk truck smashed into their front gardens.

Two people were killed in two separate accidents in Dublin and Monaghan on Saturday, bringing to 250 the number of people killed on Irish roads so far this year - 22 more than for the same period in 2003.

But in Dungannon, Co Tyrone, two families on the Carland Road had a miraculous escape yesterday morning when a milk lorry jack-knifed and overturned into their front gardens.