Woman gets €100k for trauma of accident

A teenager injured when a car driven by a 17-year-old friend crashed with what a judge called “terrifying force” is to receive €100,000 in damages.

The driver, a Leaving Cert student, got the car two weeks previously as a present from his parents and lost his life in the crash at Drumkeerin, Co Leitrim.

Mr Justice Michael Moriarty said the court could not ignore that the accident was an “appalling tragedy” in which John Williams, of Derrylustia, Drumkeerin, Co Leitrim, died.