Hit and run threat to boy: Stay away from my girl
Boy hurt as speeding car driven straight at group
A GROUP of teenagers feared that they were being targeted by terrorists when a crazed driver deliberately ploughed into them at high speed in front of a busy shopping centre. A 15-year-old boy who was hit and thrown over the top of the car was hospitalised.
The mother of one of the boys has revealed that the driver got out of his car and screamed threats at the group to: ‘Stay away from my girlfriend.’
He then sped away from the Blanchardstown Shopping Centre.
A GROUP of teenagers who were ‘deliberately’ driven at as they made their way to the cinema at first thought that they were caught up in a terrorist attack, the Irish Mail on Sunday can reveal.
One of the teenagers, a boy aged 15, went across the top of the car as it mounted the footpath outside Blanchardstown Shopping Centre on Friday afternoon.
The other five teens, four boys and a girl, were lucky to escape unscathed.
The youths were ‘deliberately’ targeted in a case of mistaken identity, one of the mothers of the children told the MoS yesterday.
The driver, a man aged around 30 in a black, 07 C registered BMW, shouted at the teenagers to ‘stay away from his girlfriend’.
He also told the group he ‘knew where they lived’ and would ‘kill them’.
‘This was no accident,’ said the mother of the quick-thinking and brave 15-year-old, who managed to photograph the car on his phone as it sped away.
The injured teenager was taken to Temple Street Children’s Hospital, but has since been released and is now recuperating at his home in Mulhuddart. He was badly bruised but escaped without serious injury. His mother said he was a ‘really good kid’ and was ‘doing okay’.
Another mother detailed how the group of friends were leaving the Leisureplex to go to the cinema to watch Jumanji: Welcome To The Jungle. She said: ‘They had walked down a little bit towards the library and were standing there when this car came flying around and was purposefully trying to hit them.’
The teenagers at first thought they were in the middle of a terrorist attack but soon realised that the driver had mistaken them for another group of friends.
She said: ‘They were being targeted. This was no accident.
‘My son said another few inches and it would have hit five or six of them. One of the boys was hit and went across the top of the car.’
The man then stepped out of his car and continued shouting at them, then sped away.
The mother added: ‘I have a very shaky photograph of the registration plate. The gardaí have it and I am sure they are in the process of tracking the man down.
‘Somebody seemed to do something to his girlfriend and this guy drove a car at a group of teenagers. It is just appalling.’
Gardaí are appealing for witnesses to the incident, which happened outside Dante’s Pizza in Blanchardstown at around 4.40pm on Friday.