A drink driver charged in connection with a traffic collision at the weekend which left two people in intensive care has been remanded in custody with consent to bail.
Forty-year-old Romans Rinavas with an address at 7 Na Cleagga, Ballybrit, appeared before Galway District Court charged with alleged drink driving at Lydican, Claregalway on January 24, 2010.
Inspector Pat McHugh told the court that the defendant had been arrested in Oranmore following what he described as a “serious traffic collision”. He added that three people had been taken to hospital and two of these were currently being treated in intensive care for very serious injuries.
The Inspector said that more serious charges could be laid against Rinavas. He then made an application for the accused to be further remanded in custody with consent to bail in his own bond of €1,000, one half to be lodged, and independent surety of €5,000, one half to be lodged.
Defence solicitor Adrian MacLynn said that his client, a Latvian national, would require an interpreter.
Inspector McHugh also asked that conditions of bail include that Rinavas sign on daily at Galway Garda station between 9am and 9pm, that he surrender his passport and not apply for other travel documentation, and that he remain at the address furnished to gardai.
Judge Mary Fahy granted the application to have the accused remanded in custody with consent to bail to February 1.
