Image: PA Images Image: PA Images A FATHER OF one who alerted the gardaí to the fact that he had been responsible for a hit and run crash the previous night has been jailed for 20 months.
Judge Nolan said he made a grave misjudgment travelling by car and compounded it by not remaining at the scene. He said he must infer that the accused knew a serious collision took place and that a human being was involved. One driver lost control of his vehicle after driving over Mr Maunde’s body. He stopped his car and contacted the emergency service when he returned to the scene to discover it was actually a person.A victim impact report from Mr Maunde’s family was handed into court but not read out.
Corcoran told gardaí in subsequent interview that his fiancee, his friend and his fiancee’s friend had been out socialising that night and drinking, outlining that he had two beers and four whiskeys. Garda O’Brien agreed with Bernard Condon SC, defending, that one witness told gardaí a motorist would not expect to see a person walking on that part of the motorway.
Counsel accepted that this was “a factor in the case” but submitted that his client didn’t minimise this in his statement to gardaí the day after the accident.Garda O’ Brien told Kelly that a number of eye witnesses told gardaí that they had encountered a man, dressed all in black, crossing the motorway in the vicinity of the Red Cow Roundabout.
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