Hit-and-run driver ordered to pay €1000 fine

A hit-and-run taxi driver who broke a red light and knocked down a five-year-old boy crossing the road has been ordered to pay a €1,000 fine or serve a one year prison sentence.

Hit-and-run driver ordered to pay €1000 fine

A hit-and-run taxi driver who broke a red light and knocked down a five-year-old boy crossing the road has been ordered to pay a €1,000 fine or serve a one year prison sentence.

Salvatore Macken (64) was given a 12-month sentence by Judge Katherine Delahunt but she suspended it because of his age and medical problems.

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