Learner driver loses appeal for compensation from third accident

Previously, the 30-year-old care assistant from Co. Tipperary had secured €20,000 over a 2010 accident and €50,000 over a 2018 accident

The court heard that on the day of the accident, Kellie Quinlivan was driving unaccompanied as a provisional licence holder which she accepted was unlawful. File photo

An unaccompanied learner driver who claimed she crashed because of an oil spill on a road has lost an appeal against a High Court decision rejecting her claim for compensation.

Kellie Quinlivan's action over the oil spill was one of three she took over road accidents in the last 12 years and the first in which she lost.