Woman traumatised after steel grids penetrate car roof

A building company has been fined €50,000 after a woman’s car was crushed by a load of steel mesh grids at a construction site just minutes after she had dropped a number of children at a nearby school.

Woman traumatised after steel grids penetrate car roof

A building company has been fined €50,000 after a woman’s car was crushed by a load of steel mesh grids at a construction site just minutes after she had dropped a number of children at a nearby school.

The woman has not driven a car since and was out of work for more than a year because of panic attacks as a result of the being trapped inside her Volkswagen Golf after the steel penetrated its roof.

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