Fears that someone will be killed if nothing is done
After eight crashes on the same stretch of road at Tubberfin near Donore in the last two years, two of them in the space of three days last week, a local man has written to Meath County Council asking them to do something before someone is killed.
According to local resident Liam Reilly there have been many more crashes outside his house at a bend in the road since it was resurfaced in 2008. Liam says drivers are treating the road like a speedway.
Liam is so frustrated and fearful that one day somebody is going to be killed on the road that he has written to Meath County Council asking them to do something about the situation and sent them photos and videos to back up his argument.
“A girl was taken away in an ambulance on Tuesday (last week) and she had two little children in the back seat aged one and three who were luckily not harmed” he told Drogheda Life.
“The new stretch of road was completed in 2008 and has ever since been a speedway for all sorts of motorists” Liam states in his letter to the Council.
“Even by adhering to the speed limits currently in place, most cars coming around the bend are unable to keep within the white line. When the weather conditions are anything but dry, vehicles do not get away with approaching the turn at speed, especially if another car happens to be coming in the other direction. This usually ends in a collision.
He says that if Meath County Council were to check the record of every time a signpost or a bollard has been replaced at this particular bend, they would find the numbers staggering.
“I do not have a photographic record of every incident but what I have I believe should be sufficient to warrant an immediate response to what is a fatality waiting to happen” he warned.
Liam says that on Sunday August 8th, 2021, he heard a crash and then screams as a young woman and two of her friends were trying to get out of their overturned car.
“They were lucky to escape without any injuries” he said.
Three days later, on Tuesday August 11th Liam arrived home around midday to find that another driver had hit the electricity pole across from his house which had to be replaced that evening by the ESB.
He says he is afraid of what he might encounter some day when he hears another loud bang outside his house hoping against hope that what he finds is not going to be anything that would be on the 6 o’clock news!
Here’s a video that Liam has put together using photos of some of the crashes that have occurred outside his house over the years:
