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A 34-year-old man has been found not guilty of dangerous driving causing the death of a cyclist who had been on a Sunday outing with the Killarney cycling club on the N22.
The jury had asked to view again dashcam evidence taken by a passing motorist which captured the late Mr Duggan among a group of four cyclists, going single file up Knockaderry hill– around 10 minutes before the collision. The Killarney cyclists had set out at 9am from Killarney, and had gone via Fossa to Milltown, Castlemaine, Tralee, Castleisland and Farranfore, and were returning to Killarney via the N22, the trial was told.
There was a tradition in the Killarney club of waiting for colleagues who had fallen behind. The leaders stopped after the crest of Knockaderry Hill, after Farranfore at Scart Cross on the N22, before setting out again. The light-framed Giant cycle had been struck “squarely into the back wheel” by the green Corolla, driven by Mr O’Mahony, according to the technical evidence.
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