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GARDAÍ THIS EVENING renewed their appeal for information surrounding a recent incident in which a teenager was fatally injured by a lorry in Dublin city.
The 15-year-old girl was struck by an articulated lorry at Heuston Station on Thursday, 17 July at around 4.20pm. She was pronounced dead at the scene.
Gardaí at Kilmainham are appealing to witnesses or anyone with any information to contact them.
They are particularly appealing to the occupants of a light green Volkwagen Passat taxi, 2000-2005 model, which exited Heuston Station and was travelling behind the lorry when the incident occurred, to contact them at Kilmainham Garda Station (01 6669700), the Garda Confidential line (1800 666111) or any garda station.
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If he did actually see anything at all you would have to wonder why he didn’t stop or contact the police in the last week?
Could have been an illegal taxi bad didn’t wana stop!!?
This taxi there looking for can be found at the drop of a hat. Taxis are in a data base they just have to talk to the regulator to find any green passats
Only if it’s registered in the first place.
There’s an app that all the public can use to make sure your getting into a legal Taxi.. Also, is there no CCTV cameras in Heuston Station so the Taxis roof sign number can be read? Maybe they have the number but came up as “not registered” as a good majority of Taxis do on the app.. The Gardai did announce only a few weeks ago that up to 25% of Taxis stayed off the road when a clamp down on illegal taxis was taking place… So are the public to assume that 25% of the Taxis on Irish roads are illegal and if something goes wrong the customer has absolutely no comeback because the authorities haven’t a clue who is driving them?
If it was that easy as you say it is wouldn’t you think they would have found him already
“They’re”
They appear to be interested in the passenger(s) as well as the driver – it refers to occupants above. So while they may easily find the taxi through registration, if the passenger(s) hailed by hand and paid in cash, they may be untraceable, other than by public appeal?
Can they not Che know with the taxi regulator ?? Surely they have a list of all taxis and the card that ate on the road ??
Wut?
You on the sauce,
The card that ate on the road ? Not a great place for a card to be sitting around eating.
Best comment ever
Cool lights, I think grainne has now gone to cuckoo land !
Grainne, I can just about decipher your post…hon, it takes less than a minute to proof-read what you submit, may I respectfully suggest you give it a go?
I can imagine Grainne, laying in bed after downing a bottle of vino, reading the journal, typing out a nice comment, can barely see the text on the phone, it appears in double.
Don’t worry Grainne, we’ve all been there!
Maybe take an add out in the LAGOS TIMES?
I hate this phone… plus silly me I never re checked what I was writing! What I meant was surely the taxi regulator would have the information regarding The taxi. That’s all !
How’s the head now?
How many light green VW passats are there,
If the gards get the finger out they would have that taxi in a hour by contacting the NTA.
Lazy shower,
329 green vw passats it the taxi fleet.
Will ye leave grainne alone ffs :)
It would be a very traumatic thing to see?
So traumatic that he drove on and never said it to any of his family or friends?
Nope no excuse for it.
Karen very few of us professional drivers stop even for fatal accidents unless we are involved or can assist. If there is already people at the scene & the scene is secured we just drive on. Most people dont understand the concept but its to prevent another accident & create chaos like rubber neckers everywhere. My own policy is if help is already at hand I can only be a hindrance. It may be cold but its the safest option.
How could help already be there if they were driving behind the lorry ?
That’s all well and good.
But would you not pick up the phone for a week if you witnessed something?
What a pity nobody said anything about the poor young girl who has died. Unbelievable reading back rediculous comments.
A life has been lost tragically and condolence to those who were family, friends and associates.
The driver of the truck now has his own issues to deal with.
Idiots get on the phone, one trying to sound smarter or more intelligent than the next, without any regard for the berieved.
These trucks are too big for streets in busy areas. The trucks should be using camera technology for looking down the sides instead of mirrors at this stage, plus they really should have a special lower max speed when on busy streets. It seems many of the urban fatalities have some truck involved.
The poor family of the girl, heartbreaking for them.
Commentariat having fun as usual. But a child is dead. Is that a joke? My sympathy to her family. I visit the Journal once in a while to see how immeasurably worse the comments have been since the last time.
Expect lots of LOLS for this comment but will not see them. It will be a while before I visit this cesspit again.
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