Father reduces students to tears at road safety event as he recalls hit-and-run that killed his daughter

The event in Cork included a re-enactment of how reckless driving caused a night-out to end in tragedy, and a demonstration of how fire fighters used cutting equipment to free casualties from the mangled wrecks of crashed cars

Lucy O’Shea and Noah O’Shea (16), from Saint Brogan’s College in Bandon, Co. Cork, with Cork City Fire Brigade at the AXA Roadsafe Roadshow 2025 in Clayton Silver Springs Hotel today. Photo: Joleen Cronin

Some teenagers were reduced to tears as a bereaved father pleaded with them to take care on the roads as part a graphic and hard-hitting road safety event.

Campaigner Leo Lieghio, whose daughter Marsia was just 16 when she killed in a hit-and-run in Clondalkin almost 20 years ago, recalled the devastating impact her death had, and continues to have, on his family.