Drink Driving

He’ll be some hero in O’Gradys.

https://twitter.com/VirginMediaNews/status/1803059617410232430

An attack on rural America.

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I won’t cry him a river

Hit me baby one more time

‘I’ll Never Stop’ is RIGHT THERE lads.

Dick in a box

Coach Gundy after star RB Ollie Gordon was picked up on a DUI.

https://twitter.com/Big12Pokes/status/1810779048013873309

What a man.

https://twitter.com/On3sports/status/1810792767590912502

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Just the twelve drinks.

Former model had 12 drinks before fatal crash, court told

OLIVIA KELLEHERA 46-year-old former model who pleaded guilty to dangerous driving causing the death of a mother of two had consumed 12 alcoholic drinks, which included cocktails, prosecco, wine and gin, in the hours before the crash.

Ms Sheila Dunne (50), who was described by her daughter as a “an amazing woman – worth her weight in gold”, died following a single-vehicle crash in Sarsfield Court in Glanmire, Cork, last February. Her husband Ted had died of Covid in February 2021.

The death of Ms Dunne left their two children without parents. The special needs assistant was just 1.5km from her home in Glanmire when the crash occurred.

Jennifer Thomas of Oakfield View, Glanmire, Co Cork, appeared before Cork Circuit Criminal Court yesterday having pleaded guilty to dangerous driving causing the death of Ms Dunne on February 11th last.

Defence counsel Tom Creed, SC, told Judge Helen Boyle that “unfounded social media rumours” and inaccurate newspaper reports had circulated in the wake of the crash. He said that “malicious rumours” had spread in Cork that the body of Ms Dunne had been moved in the vehicle.

Investigating garda Det Gda Mark Durcan confirmed there was no truth to any suggestions that Ms Thomas or any other person had moved the body of Ms Dunne following the crash.

Det Gda Durcan said that the crash occurred at 7.30pm on February 11th last at Sarsfield Court in Glanmire in Cork.

Ms Thomas had been socialising with Ms Dunne, her friend of more than 20 years, from lunchtime that day when they went for a meal at a restaurant in Douglas in the city. They went to a bar in Blackrock in Cork and then on to a bar in Glanmire before getting into Ms Thomas’s jeep.

Det Gda Durcan said that in the minutes before the crash occurred Ms Thomas fell asleep behind the wheel twice while stopped at traffic lights.

She did two U-turns in a matter of minutes and drove on the wrong side of the road at Hazelwood Road in Glanmire. She knocked down traffic cones as she drove towards Sallybrook and narrowly missed two pedestrians on the footpath.

Det Gda Durcan said Ms Thomas took a left-hand bend at Sarsfield Court in Glanmire and failed to straighten up entering a grass verge. The Bluetooth system in the car automatically called the emergency services. Speed was not a factor in the case.

Crash

Det Gda Durcan said Ms Thomas was wearing her seatbelt when the crash occurred. However, Ms Dunne was not. He indicated that the impact of the crash led Ms Dunne, who was in the front-passenger seat, to fall on top of Ms Thomas. Det Gda Durcan said that roof had to be cut off the vehicle in order to extricate the women.

He said when gardaí arrived at the scene Ms Thomas was asked who was driving. She said she was and then she “got erratic” and was unable to give a definitive answer. She then said that Ms Dunne was driving as she had “more control”.

When she was shown CCTV at a later date by gardaí, Ms Thomas accepted that she was driving. She also said she had no recollection of the crash due to concussion. However, there was no medical evidence of concussion. Ms Dunne died in hospital two days after the crash.

Lilley Dunne, a 23-year-old daughter of Sheila Dunne, said in her victim impact statement that she came to court with a “shattered heart” weighed down heavily by the loss of her “rock of a mother”.

Judge Boyle reserved her decision in the case.

Ms Thomas was remanded in custody pending her sentencing tomorrow.

The two of them drank a skipful, hopped into a car, nearly cleared out loads of people and then crashed killing one of them?

She drank prosecco,wine and gin… how did she even got the car started :grimacing:

This is the case related this.

I hate saying shit and then following it with a but, but…

The woman who was killed was beyond drunk, not wearing a seatbelt and in the car with the other idiot drunk driver who fell asleep at the wheel twice and hit stuff whilst driving. No one deserves to die at all, but (there it is), she got into the car and stayed in the car with the drunk driver. Its not like the driver forced her in or made her stay with her. It wasnt a decision made by one person, the 2 of them pissed, got into the car and drove off. Clearly, she doesnt deserve to die after making a poor choice like that, but those victim impact statements make it out like she was killed whilst innocently walking down the road or something. I suppose they have to direct their anger somewhere and its easier to direct it at the driver rather than their mother/daughter, but fucking hell, this really was a completely avoidable death.

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It’s all on the driver I’m afraid. 12 drinks before 7 in the evening is some going.

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And then tried to say she wasn’t driving.

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It is, but I see @Gman’s point too re the victim impact statement.

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It sure is. But not wearing a seatbelt and getting into a car after you had been drinking with said person, and then seeing them fall asleep at the wheel, I’m not sure I’d be so vocal in outrage at the driver. If she wore her seatbelt, the circumstances could have been different. But then it may not be, ultimately it was the driver who caused the crash though, and possibly all the shite that went on afterwards is what is colouring their judgement moreso.

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Did she drive from Douglas to Blackrock and from Blackrock to Glanmire or was the car already parked up in Glannmire?