Learner driver who collided with garda car loses €60,000 personal injury claim

Learner driver Lauren Holohan said she was unaware the car had twice been written off in the UK and damaged in another accident while it was in Ireland.

An unaccompanied learner driver, who sued the garda and the state today for €60,000 damages, had been driving a 10-year-old Vauxhall Corsa that had been twice written off in the UK and crashed once in Ireland before she had bought it on Done Deal.

Judge Terence O’Sullivan also heard in the Circuit Civil Court that the 26-year-old learner driver was unaccompanied and had a provisional driving licence for only three months before colliding with a garda squad car which had been responding to an emergency call.