Show-off teen driver ‘nearly crashed into a Garda car’

A TEENAGER who was showing off to his friends in a souped-up, boy racer-type car almost crashed into a Garda patrol car, a court heard.

Dermot O’Brien, aged 19, of 9 Lower Convent Hill, Bandon, in Co Cork, pleaded guilty before Bandon District Court last Friday to a charge of careless driving at Ballylangley, Bandon, on December 11 last.

The court heard that O’Brien drove his car out of a petrol station and onto the main road at speed that night.