Gardaí were preparing to pull over a car driven by a 14-year-old boy moments before a devastating crash claimed the teenager’s life. The patrol van followed the car for a few hundred metres before gardaí turned on the flashing blue lights and a siren. The car that Thomas Healy was driving being removed from the scene yesterday. The scene where Thomas later crashed, in wet weather, was about 250m from Ross Castle. Gardaí said: “The driver of the car, a male youth in his teens, was pronounced dead at the scene.

Source: Irish Examiner July 08, 2021 05:26 UTC