Teenager gets four years for causing Kimberly O'Connor's death in Cork crash

The court heard Daniel Wyse was driving at a minimum of 119km per hour along a road which was governed by a 50kph speed limit when it crashed

The judge said that Kimberly O’Connor was an energetic, enthusiastic and idealistic teenager who lost her life when the car which Daniel Wyse was driving crashed into a pillar in Knocknaheeny.

The teenaged driver who admitted dangerous driving causing the death of 16-year-old Kimberly O’Connor in Cork one year ago was sentenced to four years in detention today.

Daniel Wyse, 17, of 21 Killiney Heights, Knocknaheeny, Cork, pleaded guilty to that fatal offence and seriously injuring a teenage boy who was also in the car when it crashed in a residential area on the north side of Cork City on February 19 last year.