Jail for Dublin teen whose van hit girl at pedestrian crossing

A man who drove a vehicle through a red light at a pedestrian crossing, flinging a girl into the air and breaking her leg, has been jailed for a year and banned from driving for four years.

Martin Joyce, aged 19, was previously convicted on June 29 of failing to remain at the scene of an accident, which took place on November 15, 2014.

A month after that accident, Joyce broke a red light after exiting the Darndale roundabout on Dublin’s Malahide Rd and hit the six-year-old pedestrian with his van.