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GARDAÍ IN CORK are investigating a serious road traffic accident that left a teenager seriously injured.
The incident occurred between a truck and a pedestrian at Ballyvodane, Donoughmore, County Cork this morning at 7.30am.
The incident happened Ballyvodane between Firmount cross and Ballyvodane Cross, Donoughmore.
The teenager was brought by ambulance to Cork University Hospital where his injuries are described as serious. The male driver of the truck was uninjured.
The road is currently closed to facilitate a Forensic collision examination and diversions are in place.
Gardaí are appealing for witnesses, especially anyone who may have been on the stretch of road between 7am and 7.30am to contact Macroom Garda Station on 026 20590, the Garda Confidential Line on 1800 666 111 or any garda station.
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Heartbreaking.
Unimaginable pain waking up not knowing what happened to your kid .
I was in college in Dublin when he went missing. It struck a chord with those of us around his age.
I hope some new and relevant information will be found.
I’m exactly the same Philip and I remember the story and his face just stuck with me so well. I can’t imagine how his family feel if it struck us all at that time so deep. Some closure is really needed on his case.
It was a horrible windy wet night when Trevor disappeared. I used to work in the area and remember all the volunteers sticking “Missing” notices up as the days went on and on. God bless his poor family not knowing what happened.
Honestly though what the hell happened to this guy ? This story still to this day gives me the chills ! he literally vanished into thin air ! Scary. Heart goes out to the family.
Many think he slipped into the canal and locks were open/opened later and out to liffey then sea. Its v sad. I remember this case well.
@Boo!-Fight the Board: That would need grand canal docks to be empty.
Did he have to walk over the Dodder on his route home?
I often thought about that myself but there’s a lot of water between Baggot Street and where the Canal meets the liffey. Surly somebody would have spotted a body in very slow moving water.. I think Donal McIntyre done a documentary on this case and he had a lad in a black hoody on CCTV following Trevor in a few places on his walk home..
@Get Lost Eircodes: Yeah, he had to cross the canal and the Dodder. They were flowing unusually fast because of all the rain.
I remember this happening very well, Trevor was same age group, it was a shock, a fit strong young man going missing like that. I remember walking to my student flat in Ranelagh same night, it was miserable and wet, no taxis (and even when they were running you could be waiting an hour or more to get one from the city centre) then all the posters going up.
The Gardai were very slow off the mark and missed a lot of basic stuff though. There would be no cctv footage if his friend Conleth Loonan hadn’t got it preserved by the bank. They never retrieved the last voicemail he left on his friends fphone that was deleted. The email he sent from work on his way home wasn’t retrieved. Who knows what would have been found if the canal and river were searched earlier?
That’s sad. Especially at this time of year
I can’t even imagine how families get on with their daily life after something like this. The not knowing, it’s just awful. Someone has to know something, Dublin is never ever quiet, even at that time.
Just terrible somebody knows something.
It’s hard to grasp the concept of a fully grown human being simply just “vanishing”. And possessions, or things, cannot evaporate into thin air either. Like, we all wear coats, shoes, maybe jewellery, and Trevor was carrying a huge golf umbrella that night too, surely even one thing belonging to him was found, or has surfaced? The eerie CCTV footage showing Trevor being followed closely is no benefit either, even if it was someone trying to mug him for his wallet, or if he had been injured by them, some evidence would be left behind. How have his poor family lived with all the ifs & buts of this whole ghastly scenario hanging over them, for so long, is just beyond human endurance.
Thoughts with his family this time of year, an awful experience for them.
The recent documentary showed CCTV footage where he is clearly being followed. It quite chilling to see.
Very sad for all concerned but should have highlighted the need for more CCTV in the capital just like they have in London.
VERY SAD
Terrible on the family,may the perpetrators rot in hell
You don’t know whether there is or is not a perpetrator (s) Tommy.
it is one of 3 things, there may not be any perpetrators.
(1) Accident
(2) Murder/Abduction
(3) Voluntary disappearance ( extremely unlikely by all accounts but cannot be 100% definitively ruled out since he just completely disappeared)
As a father it was something like this that had my nerves gone when they were out socialising.I feel so sorry for trevors father.It must be awful.
God 16 years? Doesnt seem like it. I have a son now myself and its awful to imagine. Hope can be a cruel mistress
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