LIZA Landau of Moneystown, Roundwood, Wicklow, passed away on January 4th, aged 62. Liza was a well-known rider and instructor, who famously survived a horrendous car accident the night of October 19th, 2002, when she was 39.

The crash involved her car becoming almost fully submerged upside-down in a boghole in Wicklow, where she survived for two days by wedging her head between the pedals and breathing using a pocket of air in the footwell. Liza endured incredible pain in her struggle to stay alive and was suffering from hallucinations and hypothermia when she was eventually rescued.