THE ROAD SAFETY Authority (RSA) has instructed the National Car Testing Service to release test results of a car involved in a road collision to the mother of a woman who was killed in it.
Paula Murphy had requested the results of a test on her daughter’s car which veered out of control and crashed in Cork in December 2012. 26-year-old Amanda O’Flaherty had been driving to visit her sister in Cobh when she collided with another vehicle.
The inquest into her death found that the car, which she had bought six months earlier, was not roadworthy but had undergone an NCT the month before she purchased it. Her mother had asked for the NCT results but the request was refused because her daughter had not been the registered owner of the car at the time.
However a spokesperson for the Road Safety Authority has told TheJournal.ie this morning that it has now “instructed the NCT to issue that certificate to that lady by lunchtime today”.
“The RSA is deeply unhappy with the way the NCT have handled Mrs Murphy’s request,” he said. “We had previously requested that it should be released and have now intervened to instruct them to release it immediately.”
“It goes without saying that we would like to apologise to Mrs Murphy as well for any additional hurt and aggravation caused by this saga,” he added.
Responding to the news today, Paula Murphy told TheJournal.ie that she was “over the moon”.
She has been told that the results have been sent out in the post and she should receive them in the next couple of days.
“It’s so important for me to get it for myself and my peace of mind and to give closure,” she said. “I’d been at it for the last couple of months and I wondered will I ever get to the bottom of it so it’s great.”
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