Children escape shoreline car plunge

SIX children and a woman escaped serious injury after their car plunged 20 feet down an embankment.

The people-carrier landed on rocks on the shoreline when it went over a ledge on a bend on the Coast Road at Portmarnock, north Dublin.

The Irish Coast Guard helicopter flew paramedics directly to the causalities, as three appliances from Dublin Fire Brigade and up to eight ambulances rushed to the scene, near Portmarnock beach.