Passengers asked drunk driver to slow down moments before car spun in air and landed in stream

Car became airborne, spinning over a couple of times before it landed upside down in a stream outside the Rising Sun pub in Ballinhassig, Cork.

Selvin Foley, aged 21, of Fernville, Lower Cove, Kinsale, County Cork, was jailed for 18 months at Cork Circuit Criminal Court

An intoxicated motorist with two passengers swerved over and back across a country road at almost twice the speed limit — laughing and ignoring calls to slow down — until the car collided with a ditch and spun through the air before landing in a stream some six metres below the road.

Garda Declan Lynch gave evidence at Cork Circuit Criminal Court where Selvin Foley, aged 21, of Fernville, Lower Cove, Kinsale, County Cork, was jailed for 18 months.