Buncrana inquest hears how vehicles had slipped off pier before

RNLI volunteer tells inquest into deaths of five family members in County Donegal how his efforts to reach submerged Audi were thwarted

The pier in County Donegal, Republic of Ireland, where five members of the same family drowned last year was the scene of at least three similar incidents in which vehicles lost control, an inquest has heard.

Sean McGrotty; his sons Mark, 12, and Evan, eight; his mother-in-law Ruth Daniels, and her 14-year-old sister, Jodie-Lee, died in March 2016 after McGrotty's Audi Q7 slid off Buncrana pier into Lough Swilly.