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Wales Online
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Lydia Stephens

Man keeps crowbar and chainsaw handy because people keep crashing outside his countryside house

Damien Mooney has crowbars and even a chainsaw on hand - as he never knows when he'll be called into action to deal with a car crash on his doorstep.

Over the last two weeks, there have been at least three road accidents in the same spot on a rural road. The half a mile stretch is so prolific for incidents, Damien is never surprised when there's another one and, because of where he lives, he's often first on the scene.

“Where we live, we don’t have many neighbours, and put it this way, the people we see the most are delivery drivers, or people who have crashed,” said Damien. “When we moved in, around 2019, within a week of moving in, there was a young lad who came to the front door, he had put his car on the roof in the stream, he was soaked.

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