MY HEART WILL NEVER BE THE SAME

Mum's agony after Mia, 16, killed while out walking dog

- BY PAUL HEALY Crime Correspondent

CLOSED OFF Traffic diversions at tragic scene

THE mother of a teenager killed by a car in a hit-and-run has said her “heart will never be the same again”.

This paper has learned that the tragic girl who lost her life on the Slane Road in Navan, Co Meath, on Saturday night was 16 year old Mia Lily Keogh O'Keeffe.

She is the seventh person to have been killed on the road on the island of Ireland over the course of the weekend.

Mia, who was from Navan, was walking her dog and was at a pedestrian crossing when a driver struck her with his vehicle and then failed to remain at the scene at around 8:20pm.

Gardai and emergency services rushed to the area and Mia was taken to Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital in Drogheda, Co Louth, where she was subsequently declared dead.