If you take out the brief mention of the fact that the car hit the fence in the standfirst, the article really does read as if the fence just attacked the car.
This sounds like one of the many crashes involving young people after a night out, although it may of course have happened on the way to wherever they were going to go out to. Such crashes are frequently fatal, so in that respect they will undoubtedly have been lucky.
If you take out the brief mention of the fact that the car hit the fence in the standfirst, the article really does read as if the fence just attacked the car.
This sounds like one of the many crashes involving young people after a night out, although it may of course have happened on the way to wherever they were going to go out to. Such crashes are frequently fatal, so in that respect they will undoubtedly have been lucky.