Fatal garda crash jury calls for review of tyre standards

The legal minimum standards for tyres on garda cars should be reviewed after a pensioner was fatally injured by an out-of-control patrol car, a jury recommended tonight.

After hearing evidence from around 30 witnesses over the death of Mary Seavers, 74, who was struck by Garda Niamh Seberry when the patrol car mounted the kerb on Clonskeagh Road, south Dublin on May 22, 2005, the jury sought a review of the legal minimum tread depth on tyres of emergency vehicles.