INQUEST HEARS OF DEFECTIVE CAR IN ROS A MHIL DEATHS

Date Published: 20-Sep-2008

A defective car, bought for 150 euro, was the vehicle in which two Lithuanian men were travelling when they died in Connemara last year.36 year old Yanis Teibe and 39 year old Andriejuas Chitrovas from Lithuania drowned when their car went off the pier at Ros a Mhil and into the water last December.A third man who was in the car at the time, managed to escape, according to today's Irish Independent.Inquests into the men's deaths this week, revealed that both were well over the drink-driving limit.A public service vehicle inspector told the inquest that the car which had 127 thousand miles on the clock was "defective".