2 Gardai who’s patrol car hit a tractor an trailer and then crashed through a wall of a house at Stonebridge near Clones County Monaghan on Thursday had what was described by locals as “a very lucky escape” when the 3 suffered only minor injuries in the smash.

The accident happened on the main Monaghan-Clones Road just after 6.pm when the squad car collided with the tractor, which was towing a large silage trailer and then crashed through a stone wall of a bridge leading to a residential property.

1 unit of Clones Fire Brigade and other Gardai attended at the scene but all 3 suffered only minor injuries