A car has smashed through the window of a Chinese restaurant in Portadown after a drunk driver crashed into the back of it.
The “life or death” incident happened on Friday evening, 26 April, when a family parked outside the takeaway with a six-month-old child on board.
A drunk driver, who had stolen the vehicle he was driving, crashed into the back of the family and sent their car through the window of the Chinese.
Police arrested the man at the scene and found that he was twice over the legal alcohol limit for drivers.
He has since been charged with drink driving, driving without a licence, driving unaccompanied an failing to display L plates.
No one was injured in the incident, but a PSNI spokesperson said the line between life and death in this situation had been “far too slender”.
“Between prison time and freedom for the offender, between life and death for the victim,” the officer added. “It is never worth it.”
(JG/CM)
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