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14/03/2013
Nine-Year-Old Awarded €1.5m In Damages
The High Court has awarded damages of €1.5m to a nine-year-old boy, seriously injured in a car crash which killed his sister and her best friend.
John Logan, who was four at the time of the incident, was travelling in a car driven by Mary Carberry, an alcoholic who was uninsured and banned from driving. The car crashed in to a mud embankment outside Edgeworthstown, Co Longford six years ago.
John's sister Michael, aged nine, and her friend, Mary Carberry's daughter, Ava, aged six were killed.
Ava's sister Faith was also injured in the tragic accident in November 2007.
Mary Carberry, of Clonguish Court, Newtownforbes, Co Longford was later sentenced to six years imprisonment with two years suspended in relation to the accident.
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John Logan, who was four at the time of the incident, was travelling in a car driven by Mary Carberry, an alcoholic who was uninsured and banned from driving. The car crashed in to a mud embankment outside Edgeworthstown, Co Longford six years ago.
John's sister Michael, aged nine, and her friend, Mary Carberry's daughter, Ava, aged six were killed.
Ava's sister Faith was also injured in the tragic accident in November 2007.
Mary Carberry, of Clonguish Court, Newtownforbes, Co Longford was later sentenced to six years imprisonment with two years suspended in relation to the accident.
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