The son of the woman who was killed when hit by a Garda patrol car has said he is "at a loss" as to why the Director of Public Prosecutions decided that no prosecutions should be brought over his mother's death.
He said that it was clear from the evidence at an inquest into her death that the patrol car was speeding.
Outside Dublin City Coroner's Court yesterday, David Seavers said it was "not appropriate" that the investigating garda into the incident was from the same station, in Donnybrook, as the driver of the car. "It's not acceptable even to the gardaí, they don't like to be put in that position," he added.
The Seavers family needed to "reflect on what's come out today before considering further action". However, he thought a civil action was inappropriate "in the case where a car was involved in an accident".
Mary Seavers (74), Farmhill Park, Goatstown, Dublin, died in Beaumont Hospital in June 2005, three weeks after she was hit by a Garda patrol car while she was at a bus stop in Clonskeagh.
Mr Seavers described her as an "exceptional woman" who had a "lot of life still in her".
"She socialised, played bridge and really we could not want for a better mother . . . I hope her death was not in vain and that something good will come out of the findings of the court."
Mr Seavers added that everyone should be aware of tyre tread depths, "but some of these issues are a distraction from the core issue, which Sgt Colm Finn identified, that speed was the sole factor in this case."