Nicola Kenny (26) killed in 2016 incident in which ‘driver error’ was contributing factor
, was being driven to Temple Street Hospital in Dublin to visit her new baby daughter, who had been transferred to Temple Street from South Tipperary General Hospital in Clonmel for medical attention.
It was also heard in court last year that Nicola’s aunt, the driver of the Ford Focus, had pulled into the hard hard shoulder to allow Nicola take a call from Temple Street to tell her the baby was fine.told the inquest on Friday that the judge in the criminal case last year “said he believed driver fatigue was a contributing factor” to the fatal crash., said: “On the signs we see on the motorway, ‘Tiredness Kills,’ it does actually apply in this case.
Paramedic Michael McGrath said he was off-duty at the time of the crash, 12.30pm on September 5th, 2016, but came upon the scene in his car. He established that Nicola Kenny was deceased while her mother was injured and her aunt was seriously injured.Neither of the other women in the car at the time was present at the inquest, but Nicola’s father
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