Disqualified driver jailed for dangerous driving causing death and serious injury

Thomas Doran, 29, drove 700m down the N7 dual carriageway in the wrong direction, colliding head on with another car, killing the driver, and seriously injuring the passenger 

Thomas Doran of Clonskeagh Road, Ranelagh, pleaded guilty at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court to dangerous driving causing the death of Mr Anatolie Butucel and causing serious bodily harm to Mr Serghei Grigoras and Mr Patrick Connors on the N7 Naas dual carriage way on September 21, 2020 File picture: Colin Keegan/ Collins Dublin

A man who drove the wrong way down the N7 dual carriageway in the early hours of the morning causing a crash which killed one man and seriously injured two more has been jailed for six years.

Thomas Doran, 29, had been spotted driving dangerously by gardaí in Tallaght before the collision but they had stopped the pursuit as it was too unsafe to continue.