Passenger dragged for 250 metres

A taxi driver who dragged a passenger along a road with his car for 250 metres following a disagreement about a fare has been spared a jail sentence and a road ban.

Martin Rehill, 63, with an address at Daroge, Seven Oaks, Rathmines, Dublin 6 was fined €500 and had his licence endorsed after he was convicted of careless driving following the incident involving 24-year-old computer science student David Donovan at Rathgar Road, in Dublin on May 31.

He was cleared of hit-and-run charges: failing to stop following the occurrence of an injury and not keeping his vehicle stationary.