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The human toll of the rise in deaths on our roads.
(From Irish Independent)
Seven men were killed in car crashes last weekend, leading many to question the effectiveness of recent measures to tackle dangerous driving. With the number of road fatalities up 30% on the same period last year, Lara Bradley speaks to one family whose lives were shattered by a drink-driver
The best nights for Teresa Curtis are those when she cannot sleep at all.The worst are when she drifts off and dreams her son Kenny is still alive. "I think: 'There he is. He's not dead at all. Kenny is still alive'.
"Then I wake up and a minute later I realise it was a dream. That is the most terrible thing . . . going through it all over and over again," she says. Kenny, a 30-year-old plasterer,had moved back to live with his parents in Dunboyne, Co Meath, so he could save up fora home with his girlfriend Tracy Brown and nine-month-old daughter Jodie when he waskilled.
His dad John says he will never be the same happy-go-lucky man he was before October7, 2000, when he watched his son turn black after the life-support machine keeping hiscrushed and tyre-marked body alive was switched off.
"Kenny hadn't been out for six months because work had been scarce. The man who killed him got two years in prison and that makes me feel the world thinks my son's lifewasn't worth a damn," John says.
Kenny was one of the hundreds of people killed on Irish roads every year. So far this year, 96 people have died in crashes, including seven men last weekend. This figure is a30% increase on the same period last year.
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