SUSPENDED SENTENCE FOR LORRY DRIVER WHO KILLED PEDESTRIAN IN CITY
Date Published: 05-Mar-2010
A Limerick lorry driver, who knocked down and killed a man at pedestrian traffic lights in the city last year, has been given a suspended 12 month prison sentence.
46 year old David Noonan of Spittle, Ballylanders, Limerick, pleaded guilty at Galway Circuit Criminal Court to dangerous driving at a pedestrian crossing adjacent to Dunnes Stores at Terryland on February 24 last year which caused the death of 30 year old hotel receptionist, John Taaffe.