Child suffered massive trauma in Cork crash

A mother wept yesterday as a jury returned a verdict of accidental death in an inquest into the death of her only child in a road crash in West Cork.

Child suffered massive trauma in Cork crash

The inquest into Zoe Scannell’s death near Rosscarbery in 2014 also heard she was sitting on her mother Alisha’s lap in the back seat of a car, sharing a seatbelt, when their car was hit by an out-of-control car driven by an unaccompanied teenage learner driver.

The driver pleaded guilty to dangerous driving causing death and received a two-year suspended jail sentence earlier this year.

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