Motorist fined and jailed for careless driving in Cork city centre 

Gardaí saw a motorist struggling to drive straight through Cork city, with extensive damage to his car, and he later told gardaí he damaged it three days earlier doing handbrake turns. Now he has been convicted and fined €1,000 and jailed for one month.

Istvan Konyari, aged 38, with an address at Shandon St, Cork, pleaded guilty to charges of careless driving and to a related offence of driving a dangerously defective vehicle.

Judge Mary Dorgan convicted and fined him €500 on each offence and also imposed a one-month prison sentence.

Mr Konyari was also disqualified from driving for a period of 12 months.

The motorist told Sgt Vincent McCarthy the reason the vehicle was so damaged was that he had been doing handbrake turns three days earlier.

On the date of the incident on December 4, 2021, he appeared to have issues keeping it in a straight line at Lavitt’s Quay.

The rear right of the vehicle was extensively damaged.