‘Wild escapade’ of dangerous driving risked up to 20 lives

Numerous people could have been killed on country roads by a wild escapade of dangerous driving and it is positively miraculous that the two young Limerick men in the stolen jeep were not killed, Judge Gerard O’Brien said as he jailed the driver for four years and the passenger for three years.

Limerick man Martin Treacy, aged 27, drove a 78-year-old man’s jeep directly at him in his farmyard, blowing him into a ditch, and then went on a driving escapade which could have killed up to 20 people on the roads.