Irish backpacker killed by out-of-control car in Cairns
Donal Bolton, from Co Offaly was sitting with his 22-year-old girlfriend in a pedestrianised zone in the north Queensland city of Cairns when the Nissan car suddenly veered towards them mounted a curb and landed on the young man. His girlfriend escaped with leg injuries. Paramedics were on the scene quickly, but were unable to save him and he died at the scene.
Witnesses said the 33-year-old driver was found to be “frothing at the mouth with his eyes rolling back into his head”. It later emerged that he had been treated for a medical condition in a nearby hospital shortly before the accident, leading investigators to believe that he might have had a seizure and collapsed at the wheel. He was also taken to hospital with chest injuries.
