Car approached skew bridge at 170km/h before fatal crash

A YOUNG man was flung from his car and killed after a high-speed crash on a treacherous bridge in Cork, an inquest heard yesterday.

City coroner, Dr Myra Cullinane, was told that Daragh Farrell, aged 32, of 4 Woodhill Villas in Tivoli, Cork, lost control of his 2ltr Mazda Xedos as he drove from the city at speed towards the Tivoli or Skew bridge at about 3am on October 24, 2006.

The car failed to make a sharp left turn on the bridge, smashed through a thick concrete wall on the other side of the road and crashed down an embankment.