Teenage boy sentenced for dangerous driving causing death

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A teenage boy was sentenced to two years’ detention in a juvenile facility at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court on 20 May 2021 for dangerous driving causing death.

He pleaded guilty to dangerous driving causing death at North Wall Quay, Dublin, on 31 August 2020, and to failing to report the incident at the same address and on the same date.

Judge Martin Nolan ordered credit for time already served in detention. The boy was 16 when the collision occurred and cannot be named for legal reasons.