A girl has advised how she feared herself and her son have been going to be rammed right into a ditch by a harmful driver.
Carmel Gibson recalled the terrifying incident on March 6, 2022 on the primary N14 Letterkenny to Lifford Highway at Galdonagh.
She was referred to as to offer proof at Letterkenny District Courtroom in opposition to a person charged with dangeorous driving.
The motive force of the opposite car, Christopher Grant, was because of seem earlier than the courtroom however the 33-year-old didn’t seem when the case was heard.
Grant, with an deal with of Iniscarn Highway, Desertmartin, County Derry, was arrested that night time by the PSNI having collided with a visitors island after crossing Lifford Bridge.
Ms Gibson collected her son in Letterkenny and was travelling on the street at Galdonagh when she noticed headlights behind her. “They appeared out of nowhere,” she stated.
Ms Gibson felt a nudge, however was uncertain and drove on. Having felt one other nudge at the back of her automobile, Ms Gibson sped up as she felt unsafe.
“A automobile got here flying and rammed into the again of me,” she stated. “The place he rammed me, there was a drop together with the street and I used to be scared that he was going to ram us into it.”
The short-thinking Ms Gibson bought her son to ring An Garda Siochana. On the Ballinalecky crossroads, the opposite automobile overtook Ms Gibson, who pulled right into a lay-by.
She remembered: “He was on the improper aspect of the street when he overtook me. I overpassed him when he bought across the nook.”
Photographic proof of the harm precipitated to Ms Gibson’s automobile was submitted to the courtroom.
Ms Gibson’s son recalled the incident and the way the opposite car, a white BMW, was ‘swerving over and again’ because it overtook them.
Decide Éiteáin Cunningham proceeded with the case in Grant’s absence.
Garda Sinead McLaughlin gave proof of taking a press release by which Ms Gibson advised how the offending car was ‘crossing over and again the street’ and navigated corners on the improper aspect of the street.
All incidents occurred in public locations on the Letterkenny-Lifford street, the courtroom heard.
Garda McLaughlin stated the white BMW collided with a second automobile at The Frequent in Lifford earlier than persevering with throughout the bridge. On the Strabane aspect of the bridge, the BMW collided with a visitors island and Grant was arrested by the PSNI.
Decide Cunningham stated she discovered the info within the case confirmed.
The fees have been of a ‘important and critical nature’, Decide Cunningham stated, noting that Grant was served with discover of proceedings.
The matter was adjourned till September 4 for sentencing with Grant to be notified.
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