Over 15 people killed in accidents involving stolen cars in past six years

More  than 15 people, many of them teenagers and children, have been killed following accidents involving stolen cars over the past six years.

Denis Dunne (20) was killed in January 1997 when the stolen car he was driving collided with another vehicle in Sandyford, Dublin.

Christopher Flynn (11) was a passenger in a stolen car that went out of control in Cork in February 1997. He died at the scene after the car crashed into fencing.

Trevor O'Connell (17) died in March 1997 after being hit by a stolen car as he walked home from a chip shop in Fairhill, Cork. His friend Stephen Kirby, also 17, died two days later in hospital. Also in March 1997, Ms Teresa McGrath died after being flung from the car she was travelling in when it was hit by a stolen car in Dublin.

Dublin taxi-driver, Arthur Murphy (46), was killed when the car he was driving was hit by a stolen car in Dublin in July 1998. He was married with four children.

Shane Curtin (11), from Castlemartyr, Co Cork was killed in August 1998 when the car he was travelling in was struck by a stolen car.

June Atkins, a 42-year-old mother of three, was killed when struck by a stolen car in Ballyphehane, Cork, in December 1998.

Richie Greene (49) and his daughter Christina (18) were killed in September 1999 when the car they were travelling in was struck by a stolen car near Pearse Street in Dublin.

They were on their way to a contract cleaning job.

William Hewitt (19) from Raphoe, Co Donegal, died in October 1999 when the stolen car in which he was travelling crashed at Burnfoot in the county.

Luke McEvoy (19), was killed in November 1999 when the stolen car he was travelling in crashed through a hedge near Banogue, Croom, Co Limerick.

Brothers, Emmet Flynn (17) and Alan Flynn (15) and their friend Christopher McHugh (21) died in January 2000 when the stolen car they were travelling in plunged into Dublin's Grand Canal.

Garda Anthony Tighe and Garda Michael Padden were killed in April last year when their squad car was struck by a stolen car on the Stillorgan dual carriageway, Dublin.