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THE AUNT OF a young hit-and-run victim has described the dreadful moment she and a friend came upon her beloved nephew, covered in blood and lying in the middle of the road, believing a young cow had been knocked down.
Garden centre worker and part-time barman David Kelly (21) was walking home after attending a social gathering in Croom, Co Limerick, when he was struck by a vehicle in the early hours of Monday.
35-year-old Joanne Kelly said she and a friend were returning home from a charity event when they came upon Kelly lying in the middle of the Croom-to-Ballingarry Road.
“I jumped out of our car after I saw something on the side of the road, I thought it was a young calf that had been knocked down. I didn’t realise until I got closer that it was a person,” his aunt said, speaking at her home.
I ran over and bent down over him. There was a lot of blood and I knew the person had obviously been hit by something.
“When I bent down I realised it was David,” she said, fighting back tears.
It was a terrible shock. I was horrified, absolutely horrified.
She explained: “To find a person on the side of the road is shocking enough, but, when you release it is one of your own family, it’s worse again.”
It was horrific, just to see him thrown there, lying in a pool of blood on the ground. It was a wet, cold, miserable night, and somebody left him there.
Appealing to the driver to “please come forward”, she added: “How would they feel if it was their son left lying on the road…Please come forward and put our minds at rest, so that we know who did this.”
She said when she found her nephew, he was lapsing “in and out of consciousness”.
“He’d answer us, only barely. We kept taking to him to let him knew he wasn’t alone, and we were with him, and there was help on the way.”
Stabilised
She said her friend, who is an emergency hospital nurse, “held David’s neck in place”, and helped keep him stabilised on the side of the road as they awaited the arrival of paramedics who transferred Kelly to University Hospital Limerick (UHL).
“She doesn’t want to be named, but I just want to say she was amazing,” she said.
She’s a close friend of the family and she did everything she could for David at the side of the road. We’ll never forget her for it.
David Kelly sustained fractures to two vertebrae in his neck, a fractured wrist, as well as sustaining a large wound to his head which required more than 100 stitches.
He is due to be transferred to Beaumont Hospital, Dublin, for surgery on his neck in the coming days, according to his aunt.
“It’s just so hard to come to terms with. Every time I close my eyes I can see him lying in the middle of the road. That’s an image that will stay with me forever,” his aunt added.
It’s something that will never go away. I just pray to god that the gardaí find whoever did it.
Gardai are conducting house-to-house inquiries in the area, and are also studying local CCTV cameras as part of their investigation.
Joanne Kelly appealed to mechanics and vehicle repair services, and anyone buying second-hand vehicles, to be “vigilant”, and to call gardaí if they suspect a vehicle may have been involved.
Anyone with information is asked to contact Newcastle West garda station on 069 20650.
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Was it not the same financial institutions who provided their expertise to most of the collapsed banks and developers .
Good to see some have profited out of the misery inflicted on the Irish citizen…….
@Kerry Blake: yeah, we’re all crippled with austerity, crows picking out our eyes, slung on the dung heap to rot in the blazing sun. beaten to a pulp by the vicious fascist government and their brutal political police. we should call the UN to bring in a peacekeeping force to protect us from the people we elect.
Funnily enough a lot of these names popped up during the crash as well.
Wasn’t it Ernst & Young who gave Anglo Irish Bank a clean bill of health on the eve of the collapse while noow we know that the final cost of the bailout will be close to €40 billion. and KPMG, who audited Irish Nationwide Building Society and reported that the bank had €300 million profits and had set aside €500m for bad debts and the bank ended up having to be bailed out to the tune of €2.6 billion.
When all is said and done Ireland is a stinking cesspit of a country and the further you climb the more you smell.
@Mark DeFriest: In fairness to Ernst & Young and KPMG, they can only audit what they are given, if someone is lying to them about figures they are given, they don’t know the true story. The Central Bank are the regulatory body and have the power to really and truly audit a bank or company, not just asking but demanding, along with checking figures themselves. They should have been doing it, the ultimate failure rests with the Central Bank, these guy where asleep at the wheel.
@Mark DeFriest: Also, I don’t understand myself why NAMA is outsourcing this to other companies, isn’t that the point of NAMA as a bad bank to keep all this stuff in house?
I feel nothing was learned from the crash to be honest, and we will be reading about NAMA 2.0 in about 2 years time.
@OnTheOutside: an independent receiver must be appointed where a company is insolvent. Needs to determine who is owed what, who has claim over what assets etc…
@OnTheOutside:
‘Audit what they are given’
They missed a large black hole there. In the States there’s a banking rule book. Break a rule and you end up in leg irons on the way to San Quentin. In Ireland there’s no rule book, banks make it up as they go along. Ernst and Young admitted during the banking inquiry that although they knew a tsunami of bad debt was about to engulf Anglo Irish Bank under Irish banking law they did not have to take that ominous fact into consideration when clearing the bank. Bit like selling a house while the wrecking ball is pulling into the yard.
@Fake Avast:
Don’t worry about me Constantin.
@OnTheOutside: agreed. If you only give half the ingredients, you cant complain if you end up with bad pancakes instead of a fine patisserie
@eimear, half the ingredients just give half the amount but the taste should be the same.
@Markonline:
:-)
100 odd million for 32 billion of sales. 0.00312 percent. Literally a drop in the ocean. Badly presented article as usual from the journal.
@Joseph Bloggs: €2 m per year is also a drop in the ocean.
Maybe the government can round up a few of these drops if they are so easy to come by and pay down the debt.
Kerching for the well in…
Its a small country with a small circle of friends at the top who plot to screw the rest of us. They are helped by what ever government is in power at the time, usually FF/FG. Time for a change. Vote these basta$rds out at the next GE and start holding the rest accountable for their actions.
NAMA is the biggest scam to ever hit this country , it is elitism at its finest . It’s jobs for the boys and a wink and nod culture among developers and politicians . Who wouldn’t want to be in NAMA when you can borrow money from them at 6% interest rate as opposed to borrowing from a banking institution at a rate of 12% to 15% interest rate .
They were banging on the door of NAMA and couldn’t get in quick enough .
I hate NAMA, the more stories I hear about what they have done that don’t make the news then the more I get annoyed, need some committee to ask questions about what they do?
Well done
Nama should be investigated from start to finish by a company from outside of Ire I don’t trust them and never have and after the dealings in the 6 counties that finished me.
The amounts of cranes and work getting done in Dublin City centre area.
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