THE Director of Public Prosecutions will decide whether a 20-year-old Kerry motorist will be retried on a charge of dangerous driving causing the death of a garda and a firefighter after a jury at Limerick Circuit Court yesterday could not reach a verdict.

A DEFENCE witness has disputed prosecution evidence at the trial of a driver charged in relation with the deaths of a Garda and a firefighter.

A FIREFIGHTER broke down in court as he spoke about a horrific crash that resulted in the deaths of a garda and a firefighter.

AFTER a Kerry-registered Audi crashed into an accident scene killing a garda and a firefighter, one person emerged from the passenger side of the vehicle saying: “Sorry about that lads,” Limerick Circuit Court heard yesterday.

A FIREFIGHTER told how he was knocked to the ground by the body of a colleague which had been hurled violently through the air when a car smashed into emergency services personnel as they were attending a road traffic accident in Co Limerick.

A GARDA and a firefighter were killed instantly when an apprentice carpenter driving with excess alcohol ploughed into them while they attended an accident scene, Limerick Circuit Court heard.

A 19-YEAR-OLD carpenter was yesterday charged in connection with the fatal crash that claimed the life of a garda and a firefighter in Co Limerick last February.