Anatomy of a Car Crash: Part 2 the Victims

Taxi driver Gearid 'Skull' Scully was killed in the first fatal road collision of 2014 in Ballina. His partner Lorraine speaks of her grief and the plans they shared for their future together. Video: Niamh Guckian

Gearoid Scully, who died in the first fatal road crash of 2014

Terence Beagan, who died in the first fatal road crash of 2014.

Gearid Scully was 47-years-old when a Mercedes coupe drove at high speed into his Skoda Superb taxi at around 4.40am on New Years Day 2014, on the N26 Ballina-Foxford road in Co Mayo. The drivers of both vehicles died.

Taxi drivers dont always get a good press but in Ballina, a town of some 10,000 people, you wont find anyone who has a bad word to say about Scully, a working-class Dubliner who had moved to the town.

He was born Gary Scully in June 1966. His father was Gerard, an electrician, his mother Kathleen. His older sister was named Sharon.

Shortly after Garys birth, the family got a house on Cabras Carnlough Road, where another sister, Catherine, was born. A few years later, another, Pamela, arrived much to the chagrin of Gary who really wanted a brother.

You can bloody well send her back, he announced to his parents. At 16, Gary got his wish when his brother, Andy, was born.

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Anatomy of a Car Crash: Part 2 the Victims