Men survive horror crash which saw car sliced by pole

Two young men whose car was almost sliced in half, when it struck a pole in Cork city, are lucky to be alive.

The men, in their mid-20s, were travelling in a VW Passat on the South Douglas Road, towards Douglas, around 2.15am yesterday, when it collided with a wooden electricity pole. The car accelerated and smashed into a metal pole 30m away, close to the junction with the Cross Douglas Road.

The ferocity of the collision pulled down power lines. The metal pole almost sliced the car in half, becoming embedded in it just short of the dashboard on the passenger side.