Teen killed while driving at 124km/h in wrong direction

A TEENAGE motorist was killed while driving at a speed of 124km/h in the wrong direction on the Naas Road carriageway in Dublin in a bid to avoid gardai after having been involved a short time earlier in a high-speed chase across the Tallaght area, reports Seán McCárthaigh.

Gerard Prentice (17) from Rossfield Park, Tallaght, Co Dublin suffered fatal injuries when his Peugeot 307 was involved in a head-on collision with a Mercedes-Benz Sprinter van on the outside lane of the southbound section of the N7 near Clondalkin around 12.30am on January 25, 2020.