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crash bang wallop
A white van crashed into a pensioner's kitchen in Co Down last night
A 27-year-old man has been charged.
A MAN IS due in court in Northern Ireland tomorrow charged with a number of offences after a van crashed into a house in Co. Down.
The incident happened last night at the house of pensioner Annie Burrell on Clare Road near Waringstown.
Pictures of the aftermath of the incident show the front of the vehicle lodged in the kitchen of the home with the back sticking out into the garden.
Annie Burrell was not injured in the incident but told RTÉ News that she got quite a shock when the van came through the wall.
“My back window came in and there was a loud bang, maybe with the window breaking And I was knocked out of my chair onto the floor. And when I looked up I could see the front of the van on my workbench,” she said.
Police have said that a 27-year-old man has been charged with a number of offences including dangerous driving, drink driving with and failing to remain at the scene of an accident.
He will appear before Armagh Magistrates Court on 20 February.
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