Suspended sentence for driver who ran from scene of crash that seriously injured man [Video]

A MAN WHO crashed into a taxi and left a passenger with multiple injuries has been given a suspended sentence.

Dublin Circuit Criminal Court heard that gardaí were called to attend the scene of a car accident where Jim Connors (30), the driver of one car was seen running away from the scene.

The second vehicle was a taxi and a passenger in that vehicle sustained four cracked discs in his neck, two cracked discs in his back, two cracked ribs, a fractured right ankle and a broken left tibia.

Connors, of Tig Mo Chroi, Glenamuck Road, Carrickmines, Dublin, pleaded guilty to five charges including dangerous driving causing serious bodily harm, being the driver of a vehicle where injury was caused to a person and failing to assist that person, failing to offer assistance and doing so to escape prosecution at civil or state level and driving a vehicle without …