Overview
- Dudek was sentenced at Wexford Circuit Court to six months in prison for careless driving causing serious bodily harm.
- Judge Cormac Quinn said a custodial term was inevitable, set a nine-month headline sentence, and imposed six months after mitigation with credit for time served.
- The 27 January 2024 collision on the N25 at Drinagh began when his Sprinter van rear-ended a car waiting to turn, pushing it into oncoming traffic.
- Saoirse Aylward, 31 weeks pregnant, underwent an emergency C-section and later learned her son Jax was stillborn.
- The court heard Dudek had been collecting humanitarian medical supplies for Ukraine, and his driving licence was not suspended due to that volunteering work.