Dutch driver denied bail after fatal road crash

A Dutch national charged with dangerous driving causing the death of a woman last week has been refused bail.

Frans Coenraad, aged 44, of Meeuwenstraat, Goor, the Netherlands, told gardaí “it was an accident” that led to the death of schoolteacher and bride-to-be Alice Strain last Thursday.

The driver was only in Ireland one day when the crash occurred.