Teenager faces 12 charges in relation to M8 crash in Cork that killed 16-year-old

The court heard that the car was allegedly being driven the wrong way on the motorway

Detective Garda John Murphy of Fermoy Garda Station told Mallow District Court on Wednesday that he had arrested, charged, and cautioned the youth in Oberstown, Co. Dublin, that morning. File picture: Dan Linehan

A boy has appeared in court charged with a range of driving offences relating to a head-on collision in Cork during the summer where a young person died.

The 17-year-old, who cannot be named for legal reasons, was charged with 12 offences related to the incident on the M8 motorway at Ballybeg near Mitchelstown in the early hours of Saturday morning on July 1 this year.