Ex-garda arrested for drink driving after man killed in crash

THE man arrested on suspicion of drink driving following a fatal car crash at the weekend was a former garda, it emerged yesterday.

A major investigation was continuing last night into both the fatal accident and an earlier hit-and-run which occurred within minutes of each other in Stepaside, Co Dublin, in the early hours of Saturday morning.

The hit-and-run occurred around 12.50am at the junction of Blackglen Road and Woodside Road, when a large, dark car - thought to be a Mercedes - collided with two women who had just left a local pub. One of the women, 17, remains in a critical condition at Beaumont Hospital, having suffered severe injury to the brain. The other woman, aged 19, who received head injuries, is in a stable condition at St Vincent's Hospital.