Legal firms in the UK routinely deal with personal injury claims that involve slips, trips, falls from height, whiplash injuries and so on. Not all accident claims, however, conform to the same pattern or format. On Saturday night, the landlord of the Gredington Arms pub in Llan y Pwll, near Wrexham, was left bemused, after a car came off a bend on the A534 near Sandy Lane and drove straight through the wall of the men's toilets. Comparable to a scene from a Hollywood action movie, the car remains stuck through the toilet wall as of Monday morning. In fact, according to a structural engineer, the car cannot yet be removed as it's holding up the gable end of the building. Miraculously, nobody was seriously injured in the accident.
The A534 was once Britain's seventh most dangerous road and publicans Rod and Di Watson, who run the Gredington Arms, have previously campaigned to the Highways Agency for a slower speed limit on the road. The refusal by the Highways Agency to impose a new speed limit has concerned Mr and Mrs Watson for quite some time, not only because cars continually take the bend at seemingly excessive speeds, but because the incident on Saturday was not the first of its kind. After describing the moment she heard a massive bang, Mrs Watson explained: "I knew exactly what had happened. It has happened before."
The accident occurred at approximately 9pm – a busy time for most pubs – but, fortunately, nobody was inside the toilet when the car struck. Mrs Watson said: "I was in the restaurant with customers and we heard a massive bang. A car with several people had gone into the wall, flown through the air and embedded itself in the gents' toilets." Rod Watson, landlord of the Gredington Arms, which has since reopened for business, added: "My wife came into the kitchen and said 'there's a car come straight into the gents' toilet,' which I did not believe particularly at the time. So I thought I'd take a look and believe me, yes." Remarkably, only one of the car occupants is thought to have sustained an injury. Mr Watson noted: "There were five people in the car - one chap and four girls. I think one girl had a sprained or broken wrist but the rest seemed alright. He was a very nice chap, very apologetic, very young." Mr Watson added that a customer had used the toilet moments before the car struck.
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