A WOMAN told yesterday how she and her grandchildren had a narrow escape after a four-wheel drive crashed into her garden.

She also revealed how it's the third crash on the same stretch of road in the past 12 months.

On Tuesday evening, Mary Moynihan was about to lead her grandsons, Christopher (7) and Daragh (2), to play in the garden alongside a narrow country road in Cloonteens, around three miles north of Killarney, Co Kerry.

Just after 5pm a vehicle came crashing through her boundary fence and wall.

A second vehicle was travelling in the opposite direction.

The debris from the crash ended up on her sitting room window and emergency services including the fire service were called. The driver of the four-wheel vehicle, who had received minor injuries, was later given oxygen by the emergency services. Power in the neighbourhood was also cut off after the ESB pole was split in two during the crash.

This is the third crash in recent months in the vicinity of Ms Moynihan's house, which lies at the bottom of a hill "with a massive dip" on a road that is now used as a short cut.

Defect

She and other residents are now calling on the county council to address what they see as the defect in the road, she said.

In March another car somersaulted into a field after striking a wall opposite her, and previously there had been similar incidents and near misses.

Ms Moynihan said she has been pleading with local politicians to address the problem and residents are now organising a petition "to make the road safe".

A spokesman for Kerry County Council said: "We are looking into the matter."