‘Wrong lift in the wrong car on the wrong night’: Inquest into man's car crash death

A musician who died in a car crash from which the driver fled, "took the wrong lift, in the wrong car on the wrong night", a coroner said.

Taidhg Burke, 32, a bass player with emerging Cork band, The Calvinists, was a back-seat passenger in a car that crashed at Bridge St, Bantry, Co Cork, on October 20, 2013.

Mr Burke was “a very talented young man and an accomplished musician,” coroner Frank O’Connell said. “Tragically, he took the wrong lift, in the wrong car on the wrong night.”