Driver could not explain cause of fatal three-car crash, court hears

A 39-YEAR-OLD woman charged with dangerous driving causing the death of another woman, arising out of a three-car accident on the main Killarney-Tralee road on September 2006, later told gardaí she did not know why the accident occurred, a court heard yesterday.

Civil servant and mother-of-three Geraldine O’Shea, of 11 Riverwalk, Oakpark, Tralee, has pleaded not guilty to dangerous driving causing the death of Bernadette Dillane, on the occasion.

Ms Dillane, 48 and also a mother-of-three, from Lixnaw Co, Kerry, was a back seat passenger in a vehicle driven by her husband.