Inquest hears of triple road death

Three friends died after being thrown from a car that lost control on a bend and collided with a truck parked on the other side of the street, an inquest heard tonight.

Garda John Reynolds said the car was travelling at between 78 kilometres per hour and 89kph in the 50kph residential zone on Dublin’s North Circular Road (NCR) when Christopher McGowan and Helen Power, both 30, and Thomas Shortall, 42, died from multiple injuries around 3am on April 21, 2005.