‘I found my daughter trapped. I will never forget it’

A FATHER came on a road crash yesterday to discover his daughter trapped in the wreckage after a runaway tarmacadam roller hurtled into a line of traffic.

Roger Lonergan said the scene on the Limerick-Tipperary route, the N24, was like a “battlefield”.

“There were injured people hanging out of car doors. I found my daughter trapped in her car and I’ll never forget it.”

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