A woman in Wicklow casually placed her order at an Arklow chipper – minutes before driving through the doors of the restaurant in an automatic Peugeot 206.
Emergency services attended the scene but fortunately no-one was hurt.
A passerby said she heard screaming before seeing the car plow into the chipper:
“I heard a commotion and looked up to see the car heading straight for the door.
“I didn’t realise what had happened at first and it’s lucky really that nobody was hurt.”