A table of remembrance in Presentation College Headford, Co Galway, for pupils Lukas Joyce and Kirsty Bohan who died in a car crash. Photograph: Presentation College HeadfordA judge has described as “every parent’s worst nightmare” the circumstances of a crash that resulted in the deaths of two children in north Galway last year.
The boy also pleaded guilty to dangerous driving causing serious bodily harm to a teenage girl arising out of the same incident. He further admitted charges of driving without insurance and the use of a mechanically propelled vehicle without the consent of its owner, Christy Bohan.
Lukas Joyce, a front seat passenger, died at the scene and Kirsty Bohan was pronounced dead a short time later at University Hospital Galway, A Garda investigation determined that the four friends had arranged via Snapchat to go out on the night. Of the moments before the crash, the boy later told gardaí, “I don’t know what it was. I was turning the corner. The car just went. I couldn’t stop it.”Garda Hallinan agreed with defence barrister Michael F Collins SC, that the group were engaged in “quite innocent fun” in the hour leading up to the fatal crash.