Young drivers urged to slow down

A coroner has appealed to young drivers to slow down, saying “a car is a dangerous weapon”.

South Kerry coroner Terence Casey was speaking in Killarney at the inquest into the deaths of two teenagers whose car hit bend in the road and left the N22 near Killarney at what the inquest was told was a speed of up to 170km/h.

The car with the two dead teenagers was only discovered at lunchtime on Saturday November 1, 2014, hours after it had hit a bend and left the road. It had ended up inside a ditch and was some metres below the road near the village of Glenflesk.