Car swept away by avalanche of slurry

A Limerick woman last night told of her nightmare ordeal at being trapped in her car as it was swept off a road and down into a field by an avalanche of slurry from a roadside farm.

Joan McLoughlin, aged 60, of Farnane, Cappamore, said: “I was travelling between Doon and Cappamore, coming up to 10 o’clock, when all of a sudden this black wave hit into the side of the car and swept me along with it. I was helpless. I couldn’t control the car as it was carried in over a ditch and down into a field.

“I was carried along for about another 30 yards into the field. I didn’t know what was happening. It was just like a black tsunami flood coming from nowhere.