WATCH: Dramatic moment bus skids on black ice in popular tourist town
No injuries reported following early-morning incident
A dramatic moment in Cork saw a bus skid on black ice in a popular tourist town, Blarney.
A double-decker bus operating on route 215, from Tower to Jacobs Island, was involved in a road traffic incident yesterday morning, January 8 at 6:45am.
A spokesperson for Bus Éireann said: “Difficult driving conditions resulted in the vehicle slipping on black ice. There were no reported injuries, and passengers were accommodated on another Bus Éireann service.”
Video footage of the incident which was shared to popular social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter shows the bus driver miraculously recover control of the vehicle before bringing it to a halt.
Gardaí attended the scene and the spokesperson confirmed that “no injuries were reported” and the bus “is undergoing assessment prior to repair.”