This article is from page 16 of the 2007-10-02 edition of The Clare People. OCR mistakes are to be expected so download the original SWF or the rendered page 16 JPG
this week, lives were put at jeopardy due to contfus- ing road markings.
On Sunday, September 16, Laura Burke from Lisdoonvarna was in- volved in an accident at Shop Cross on the R477.
“I was driving my car that morning, having been to mass in Lisdoonvar- na. I had one of my children in the car and one of her friends — they had both been serving Mass that morning,” she said.
“Tl slowed, braked and indicated to
turn right. As I did so, a car pulled out in an overtaking manoeuvre and crashed into the back of my car.”
Despite the existence of warning signs at that section of the R477, the road contains broken white lines, in- dicating that it is safe to overtake.
“Both children were screaming, distressed and traumatised. My daughter’s friend is an asthmatic and it took considerable effort to gain her confidence and calm her down,” she said.
“This is not the only accident of this nature to take place at this junc- tion recently. I don’t think it would be too difficult to replace the broken line with a single solid white line.
“I don’t think there is any time where it is safe to overtake at a cross- road, and my own personal experi- ence bears this out. Needless to say,
it would be distressing for the coun- cil to wait for a fatal accident before they took action.”
Meanwhile, in a separate corre- spondence with