Gardai were travelling 9.5 seconds at behind a car that crashed at high speed resulting in the death of a back seat passenger, an inquest heard.

A jury hearing the trial of a Dublin man accused of murder has begun hearing evidence from a forensic road accident investigator attached to the traffic unit of Garda National Headquarters.

A JURY recommended extra safety mirrors be made compulsory on all trucks after an 80-year-old pedestrian was the fifth person to be killed in one area of Dublin because of blind spots in heavy goods vehicles.