Woman recovering after car swept off road by avalanche of slurry

A woman is recovering after her car was swept off a road by an avalanche of slurry in Co Limerick, Ireland on Monday night after a tank on a hill ruptured.



The Doon to Cappamore Road in east Limerick was after the spillage of an estimated 50,000 gallons of slurry onto the road. The surge was so powerful that a car carrying a woman was washed off the road and into a field at around 9.45pm. The female driver was taken from the car by a local man who responded to her screams .

The woman, who is from Cappamore, did not sustain any injuries but is said to suffering from shock. A hearse and another car narrowly escaped the spillage which came from a slurry pit on a hilltop farm. A number of houses nearby were damaged by the spillage and will have to be cleaned and the cost of the incident is expected to be several thousand euros.



A source at the scene said: “It must have been like an avalanche. The slurry smashed through the slurry tank wall and it ran down a hill about 50 yards from the road. There was a woman driving a car and she was swept across the road with the force if it.”