Runaway car careers into shop

Shoppers have narrowly missed serious injury or death when a runaway car careered down a hill and into a shop in Omagh.
By The Newsroom
Published 17th Jun 2016, 17:37 BST
Updated 25th Aug 2016, 20:13 BST
A man whose wife and son narrowly missed being injured when a car smashed through the wall of shop in County Tyrone has said it sounded "like a bomb". No-one was in the car when it rolled down a hill and careered rear-end first into the side of Home Bargains. It happened at about 17:00 BST on Thursday in Dromore Road Retail Park in Omagh. Simon Burke was parked outside the shop at the time of the incident.A man whose wife and son narrowly missed being injured when a car smashed through the wall of shop in County Tyrone has said it sounded "like a bomb". No-one was in the car when it rolled down a hill and careered rear-end first into the side of Home Bargains. It happened at about 17:00 BST on Thursday in Dromore Road Retail Park in Omagh. Simon Burke was parked outside the shop at the time of the incident.
A man whose wife and son narrowly missed being injured when a car smashed through the wall of shop in County Tyrone has said it sounded "like a bomb". No-one was in the car when it rolled down a hill and careered rear-end first into the side of Home Bargains. It happened at about 17:00 BST on Thursday in Dromore Road Retail Park in Omagh. Simon Burke was parked outside the shop at the time of the incident.

Police received a report of the car crashing into the shop in the Dromore Road area shortly after 5.10pm on Thursday.

“No one was in the car at the time,” police said. “There are no reports of any injuries.”

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It is understood the hand brake on the car failed. The vehicle careered backwards into the side of Home Bargains.

A man whose wife and son narrowly missed being injured when a car smashed through the wall of shop in County Tyrone has said it sounded "like a bomb". No-one was in the car when it rolled down a hill and careered rear-end first into the side of Home Bargains. It happened at about 17:00 BST on Thursday in Dromore Road Retail Park in Omagh. Simon Burke was parked outside the shop at the time of the incident.A man whose wife and son narrowly missed being injured when a car smashed through the wall of shop in County Tyrone has said it sounded "like a bomb". No-one was in the car when it rolled down a hill and careered rear-end first into the side of Home Bargains. It happened at about 17:00 BST on Thursday in Dromore Road Retail Park in Omagh. Simon Burke was parked outside the shop at the time of the incident.
A man whose wife and son narrowly missed being injured when a car smashed through the wall of shop in County Tyrone has said it sounded "like a bomb". No-one was in the car when it rolled down a hill and careered rear-end first into the side of Home Bargains. It happened at about 17:00 BST on Thursday in Dromore Road Retail Park in Omagh. Simon Burke was parked outside the shop at the time of the incident.

Simon Burke was parked outside but his wife and 20-year-old son were inside.

“I heard a loud band and thought it was a bomb going off. At that point I knew something was wrong,” he told the BBC.

“My son came running out of the shop to get me. When I went inside, it was carnage and my first instinct was to check for someone underneath the rubble or in the car but there was no-one in the vehicle.”

He added: “The size of the blocks that went flying from the wall, someone could have been killed.”

Everyone inside had “a lucky escape” he said.

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