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21/03/2003
Driver jailed for causing three deaths
A man who caused the deaths of three people in a car smash in 2001 has been sentenced to six and a half years at Ballymena Crown Court today.
Twenty-seven-year-old Darren Kernohan, from Caulside Park in Antrim, pleaded guilty to charges of causing death by dangerous driving, causing grievous bodily injury by dangerous driving, driving while unfit and driving without insurance.
On August 19 2001, Kernohan was at the wheel of an MR2 sports car when it went the wrong way round a roundabout on the Belfast Road near Templepatrick in Co Antrim. His car struck at Rover travelling the opposite direction, killing two men and a woman. One other person who was injured in the smash is now wheelchair bound.
(GMcG)
Twenty-seven-year-old Darren Kernohan, from Caulside Park in Antrim, pleaded guilty to charges of causing death by dangerous driving, causing grievous bodily injury by dangerous driving, driving while unfit and driving without insurance.
On August 19 2001, Kernohan was at the wheel of an MR2 sports car when it went the wrong way round a roundabout on the Belfast Road near Templepatrick in Co Antrim. His car struck at Rover travelling the opposite direction, killing two men and a woman. One other person who was injured in the smash is now wheelchair bound.
(GMcG)
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