{"id":398626,"date":"2026-04-14T21:50:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T21:50:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/398626\/"},"modified":"2026-04-14T21:50:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T21:50:11","slug":"case-of-dangerous-driving-causing-deaths-adjourned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/398626\/","title":{"rendered":"Case of dangerous driving causing deaths adjourned"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A case involving a bus driver, who is charged with dangerous driving causing the deaths of two teenagers who were travelling on an e-scooter in Waterford almost two years ago, has been further adjourned.<\/p>\n<p>The collision, which occurred on the Cork Road in Waterford city in the early hours of 27 June 2024, resulted in the deaths of Gilbert Collins and Avuzwa Idris.<\/p>\n<p>The teenagers were aged 15 and 17, respectively, when the collision between the bus and the e-scooter took place.<\/p>\n<p>Adrian Doyle of Ard Glas, Abbey Road, Ferrybank, Co Waterford, was last year charged in connection with the incident.<\/p>\n<p>Today, Mr Doyle&#8217;s defence counsel, Gareth Hayden BL, told Judge Eugene O&#8217;Kelly that the trial is not yet ready to commence.<\/p>\n<p>The case will be back before Waterford Circuit Court on 3 June for mention.<\/p>\n<p>A trial date is expected to be set thereafter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A case involving a bus driver, who is charged with dangerous driving causing the deaths of two teenagers&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":398627,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":{"0":"post-398626","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ireland","8":"tag-ie","9":"tag-ireland","10":"tag-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398626","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=398626"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398626\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/398627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=398626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=398626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=398626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}