Judge Colm Roberts banned Hayes (26) from driving for two years and fined him €250
A judge has convicted Kyle Hayes of dangerous driving - and the Limerick hurling star now faces possible prison time over his violent disorder conviction.
Sentencing Hayes at Mallow District Court today, Judge Roberts told the five-time All-Ireland winning hurler: “Speed kills, and this was excessive and dangerous speed.” Garda Deidre Barrett gave evidence that she was conducting a speed check of vehicles traveling on the road, and whilst monitoring nine vehicles which were all traveling under the speed limit and at “a safe from each other”, she said she observed Hayes’s 191 registered white coloured Audi A6 overtaking all nine vehicles on approach to a section of the road which narrows from two lanes to one.
Liam Carroll said Hayes’s explanation for speeding was that “he ran out of road”, and that, “in an attempt to get out of the way of the other cars, he increased his speed”. The court heard that driving conditions, the condition of the road and the roadworthiness of Hayes’s car were all good on the day.
Hayes nodded in agreement with judge Roberts that speeding and not taking into account the amount of traffic on a road were all “likely to be dangerous” behaviour when driving.
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