whoever hit this poor man should hand themselves in. from the paint fragments, not only can the gardai tell what type of car that hit him was, they can determine the year, and the specific batch of cars that was shipped to Ireland, and which dealer got them.. all manufacturers keep a sample of each batch of paint the use to spray maybe 100 white cars, this is analyzed and the results stored on some database which law enforcement agency’s can access.

my freind died due to a hit and run in letterkenny 4 years ago . after 3 week the driver handed himself in. aftervthe courts he got 7 month jail which ironicaly his release date was the 1st aniversary of lauras death.. the system sucks in this country…

@tony

ha ha… funny.

quote from forensic paint analysis site.

As paint is made up of three main components, the carrier, the binder and vehicle; our forensic paint experts are able to identify the different layers of paint in a hit and run or road traffic accident (RTA) for example. From this point our team will collate the chemical information they collect, allowing them to put together a report of makes, models and year of manufacture of motor vehicles where the paint may have originated.