Michael Jones jailed for dangerous driving causing death

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Michael Jones was sentenced to five years in prison for dangerous driving causing death at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court, reported on 17 January 2019. The collision happened on Blanchardstown Road South on 17 November 2015. Jones had driven through a red light at up to 137km/h, where the speed limit was 60km/h, and was disqualified from driving for life.

A jury had found Jones guilty the previous December. Judge Patricia Ryan backdated the sentence to 19 December and said the appropriate sentence without mitigation would have been seven years. The victim's widow read an impact statement in court and held up a photograph of her husband.