The 16-year-old driver died when the car carrying five friends hit a wall near Myshall in February 2019
A teenager died and four others were injured when a vehicle hit a concrete wall coming off Mount Leinster near Myshall in Co Carlow. Photograph: Alan Betson
The driver, Eamon Kavanagh, did not have a licence, due to being 16, and was consequently uninsured. He died when the vehicle hit a concrete wall where a narrow road, coming off Mount Leinster, crosses a cattle grid south of Myshall, Co Carlow. The four other occupants were taken from the scene to hospital.
The bureau contends it is not liable to compensate Mr Bowes considering he entered the vehicle with a driver who had no insurance policy, was underage and had no ability to exercise control over the vehicle. In the witness box, he described a sense of fear as he realised the car was heading down the side of a hill and he recalled lying on the ground outside the vehicle.Eamon and another of the teenagers involved arrived at his home and they proceeded to collect two other boys and three girls to drive to an abandoned house outside Borris village. There, they drank some cider, with Mr Bowes drinking one or two ciders, he said.
Under cross-examination from Hugh Mohan SC, for the defendants, Mr Bowes said he did not know then that a 16-year-old is not old enough for a driving licence. Asked if he thought Ms Kavanagh allowed Eamon to take her car, Mr Bowes said: “Looking back at it, no. But then I did not think about it.”
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