Accidents have happened in the past at Buncranna tragedy scene

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Postmortems are being carried out on five members of a family whose car sank off Buncrana pier yesterday evening.
A four month old baby girl was taken from the car by a passerby and is said to be recovering well in hospital.
Meanwhile it has been claimed there have been accidents in the past at the scene where the tragedy occurred.
Speaking on today’s Shaun Doherty Show, The RNLI’s Operations Manager in Buncrana  John Mc Carter says the slipway is a dangerous area, and while this is the first time people have died, there have been incidents there previously:

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