Case against driver involved in bridge collapse adjourned

A CASE against the driver of a lorryload of pigs involved in a bridge collapse in north Kerry earlier this year was again adjourned at Listowel District Court, yesterday.

David Patterson, aged 48, of Screeby Road, Fivemiletown, Co Tyrone, was charged with driving a vehicle in a manner including speed, and having regard to the circumstances of the case, that was dangerous to the public, at Ballinagar, Lixnaw, on February 1 last.

He was charged shortly after the 30-metre, pontoon structure collapsed into a tidal river in Kerry.