Man ran over woman in car park

A MAN has been arrested on suspicion of drink-driving after accidentally running over a woman he had been socialising with in a bar minutes earlier, leaving her in a critical condition.

The incident happened as the man was reversing his car out of a car park of a bar in Co Cork where the middle-aged pair had been drinking together.

Gardaí believe the man and woman had left the bar together and were preparing to drive somewhere else when the accident happened. They say the man was reversing his car out of the car park and didn’t see the woman behind him.