Icecream van driver cleared of careless driving

An icecream van driver was cleared yesterday of careless driving in a case where it was alleged that he had knocked down a boy aged around six.

Barry Phelan, aged 37, of 9 Ard na Greine, Macroom, Co Cork, denied the charge.

“I put the handbrake on and I heard a thud in the back of my van. I thought one of them threw a stone at the van,” Mr Phelan said to his solicitor, Seán Cahill, at Cork District Court.

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