A 24-YEAR-old man is due in court over a collision involving a hijacked taxi.

The taxi was hijacked on Sunday morning and two men were in the car at the time it struck a pole on Mount Brown in Dublin.

One man in his 20s was fatally injured and the second – a 24-year-old – was arrested following the incident.

Gardaí said today that this man will appear before a sitting of Dublin District Court tomorrow morning charged in connection with the investigation.

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24-year-old due in court over hijacked taxi crash

Related: Man dies after hijacked taxi crashes into a pole in Dublin City>

Read: ‘You get such an awful fright … some people just don’t come back to the taxi business’>

Making a difference

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