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Dangerous driving causing death

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Co. Limerick

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8 reports, 24 Feb 2025 to 16 Sep 2026

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• Coroner backs stiffer sentences at inquest into Limerick dangerous driving death Dangerous driving causing death · Co. Limerick

  On 4 January 2020, a Hyundai van driven by Daniel Phillips, 35, pursued at high speed on the wrong side of the N24 by a Toyota Avensis driven by Michael Stanners, 41, collided with motorcyclists Maurice Fehilly, 54, and Thomas Traynor at Dromkeen, Co Limerick, while a third rider, Tom Conway, escaped serious injury. Fehilly died almost instantly, and Traynor died in 2022 after 22 operations. Phillips pleaded guilty in February 2025 to dangerous driving causing Fehilly's death and serious bodily harm to Traynor, and was sentenced in March 2025 to five years and nine months with a 10-year driving ban; Stanners was convicted by a jury of two counts of endangerment and jailed for six and a half years. In September 2026, the coroner at the inquest endorsed calls for the maximum sentence for dangerous driving causing death to be increased from 10 to 14 years.

  Sentenced, 21 Mar 2025Victim · 8 reports

Each entry shows how that report described them.

1. 16 Sep2026
   In courtirishtimes.com, in Coroner backs stiffer sentences at inquest into Limerick dangerous driving death

   Call for stiffer sentences after ‘crazy’ driver speeding wrong way killed man

   victim, Thomas Tom Traynor, male, irish (judged from name)Thomas Tom Traynor♂IE
2. 21 Mar2025
   Sentencedirishtimes.com, in Coroner backs stiffer sentences at inquest into Limerick dangerous driving death

   Two men jailed after high-speed chase resulting in motorcyclist’s death

   victim, Thomas Traynor, male, irish (judged from name)Thomas Traynor♂IE
3. 21 Mar2025
   Sentencedlimerickpost.ie, in Coroner backs stiffer sentences at inquest into Limerick dangerous driving death

   Families ‘got justice’ as men jailed following fatal crash

   victim, Thomas Traynor, male, irish (judged from name)Thomas Traynor♂IE
4. 21 Mar2025
   Sentencedrte.ie, in Coroner backs stiffer sentences at inquest into Limerick dangerous driving death

   Call over maximum sentences after motorcyclists' deaths

   victim, Thomas Traynor, male, irish (judged from name)Thomas Traynor♂IE
5. 25 Feb2025
   Convictedtipperarylive.ie, in Coroner backs stiffer sentences at inquest into Limerick dangerous driving death

   BREAKING: Man pleads guilty over death of Tipperary motorcyclist

   victim, Thomas Traynor, irish (judged from name)Thomas TraynorIE
6. 25 Feb2025
   Convictedlimerickleader.ie, in Coroner backs stiffer sentences at inquest into Limerick dangerous driving death

   Limerick man pleads guilty over death of motorcyclist

   victim, Thomas Traynor, irish (judged from name)Thomas TraynorIE
7. 24 Feb2025
   Convictedlimerickpost.ie, in Coroner backs stiffer sentences at inquest into Limerick dangerous driving death

   Man who survived being shot in head pleads guilty to dangerous driving causing man’s death

   victim, Thomas Traynor, irish (judged from name)Thomas TraynorIE
8. 24 Feb2025
   Convictedirishtimes.com, in Coroner backs stiffer sentences at inquest into Limerick dangerous driving death

   Man who survived being shot in head pleads guilty to causing motorcyclist’s death

   victim, Thomas Traynor, male, irish (judged from name)Thomas Traynor♂IE

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