Road safety group says parents must play their part in preventing learners from driving unaccompanied
A Cork woman who received a three year suspended sentence for dangerous driving causing the death of a mother and daughter near Fermoy last year wished she had died in the incident herself.
That's according to Susan Gleeson's counsel who made the remark at her sentence hearing yesterday in which she admitted losing control of her car and crashing into the pair - she received a three year suspended sentence and a fifteen year ban from driving.
The crash happened as the learner driver turned on to the Fermoy to Ballyduff Road on December 22nd last year.
The impact overturned the car of 22-year-old Louise Clancy and her mother Geraldine into a flooded ditch by the roadside.
The court heard how Noel Clancy rushed to help at the scene, not knowing his wife and daughter were inside the car.
He has since called for tougher enforcement on learner and unaccompanied drivers.
PARC Road Safety Group have also echoed these calls.
Founder of the organisation Susan Gray, who lost her husband Steve in a road traffic collision in 2006, told Cork's RedFM that laws must be stronger on learner drivers and so must parents:
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