Dangerous driver who left Cork woman with serious injuries loses appeal against conviction

Feehan launched the appeal on the grounds the judge had erred in law in his explanation to the jury of the difference between dangerous driving and careless driving

A jury had found Martin Feehan guilty of dangerous driving causing serious bodily harm in the crash on the Cork-Mallow road in 2015 and he was given a three-year suspended sentence and a 20-year driving ban by Judge Seán Ó Donnabháin following a trial at Cork Circuit Criminal Court in February 2020. File Picture

A dangerous driver who, according to a judge, should never be allowed behind the wheel “on a public road” again after his vehicle crashed into oncoming traffic during a “truly scandalous” overtaking manoeuvre, has failed in his bid to have his conviction quashed.

When Martin Feehan’s Citroen Berlingo van struck another vehicle head-on, his passenger, 40-year-old Brid Hallihan, suffered a broken pelvis and spent months in hospital as she recovered from serious injuries sustained in the multiple-vehicle pile-up on the main Mallow-to-Cork road at Grenagh, Co Cork, on February 16, 2015.