Miracle escape from car crash for elderly couple

An elderly couple had a miraculous escape when their car crashed through a bridge and plummeted into a river.

The couple were recovering from their ordeal in hospital yesterday. They are not believed to have sustained serious injury, but were badly shaken.

The dramatic collision happened in the centre of Boyle, Co Roscommon, at about 1.45pm when the Audi car collided with one side of the stone bridge, spun backwards and crashed through a pole on the opposite side of the road and went straight through the bridge and into the River Boyle below.