The mother of a young girl who was killed in a car accident five years ago shared a heartbreaking photo online of her last Christmas with the family.
In a post accompanied by the picture on Twitter, Amy Wall wrote: “2016. Our last Christmas with Estlin. 3 days later I gave birth to her beloved baby brother.
“11 weeks later a dangerous driver stole her from us forever. It took us 3 yrs before we could celebrate the holiday again but it’ll never be the same without her”.
READ MORE: Mum's tears as truck driver gets €1,500 fine and driving ban for causing her daughter's death
Amy’s husband Vincent was driving three-year-old Estlin from their home at Ennistymon, Co Clare, to a creche in Inagh in March 2017 when the tragedy occurred.
Estlin was fatally injured moments after a truck driver went to pull out from behind a bus en route to Lahinch between Ennistymon and Inagh.
She was airlifted to University Hospital, Limerick, and transferred to Temple Street Children’s Hospital in Dublin with neck and brain injuries, and sadly, her life support machine was switched off three days later.
Vincent Wall suffered serious head injuries and was placed in an induced coma, missing his little girl’s funeral.
Amy donated Estlin’s organs, and the lungs and kidneys of her ‘superhero’ and ‘lifesaver’ daughter were successfully transplanted into two different recipients.
The driver of the truck, 60-year-old Senan O’Flaherty, was charged with dangerous driving causing Estlin’s death.
When the case finally came before the court, the trucker whose careless driving caused the death of the three-year-old girl received a €1,500 fine and a driving ban.
According to reports at the time of the court case at Ennis Circuit Court, Amy Wall openly wept and shook her head after Judge Gerald Keys imposed a combined fine of €1,500 and a four-year driving ban.
Imposing sentence, Judge Gerald Keys stated that Mr. O’Flaherty had “a low culpability” and “at the bottom end of the spectrum” in the accident.
Judge Keys imposed a fine of €750 for the careless driving causing Estlin's death and a second fine of €750 for careless driving causing serious bodily harm to Vincent Wall on March 15, 2017.
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