Double tragedy - Friends killed on way home from school

THE driver of a car which plunged into a ditch, killing two school friends, phoned the parents of both teenagers moments after the impact, appealing to them to rush to the site.

Kevin Keating volunteered to take his foster daughter, Anna Scott, and school pals Taylor Duffy, Natalie Horan-Quinn and Michael Brennan home from after-school study on Monday evening.

His car careered into a four-foot-deep ditch on the side of the road at Ballingarry. The car continued for several yards still at a 45-degree angle inside the ravine before hitting the stump of an ash tree.