'Someone could have been killed' - Cork man jailed for high-speed car chase

During the car chase on the south side of Cork City, the car mounted a footpath, crossed a green area and drove through a red traffic light.
'Someone could have been killed' - Cork man jailed for high-speed car chase

Two units of An Garda Síochána – including a jeep carrying armed officers – pursued a teenager driving at high speed through suburbs on the south side of Cork City last year. File photo

Two units of An Garda Síochána – including a jeep carrying armed officers – pursued a teenager driving at high speed through suburbs on the south side of Cork City and today the sentencing judge said someone could have been killed.

Judge Olann Kelleher made this comment at Cork District Court as he imposed a jail term of nine months on 19-year-old Colin O’Leary of Rossa Avenue, Bishopstown, Cork.

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