High-speed crash victim had drugs in system

A MAN who died in a car crash after a Garda pursuit through Cork’s rush-hour traffic had a cocktail of alcohol and valium in his system, an inquest was told yesterday.

William O’Driscoll, aged 36, from Kenley Circle, Model Farm Road, Cork, died from massive head, chest and abdomen injuries after he lost control of his car on Cork’s busy South Ring Road on Saturday, February 10 last.

His two-litre injection Opel Vectra was pursued by one Garda car for several miles before the accident.