High volume of trucks travel crash road

DURING peak traffic hours, an estimated 450 trucks thunder along the main N8 route in south Tipperary where yesterday’s horror crash occurred.

The National Roads Authority has spent €20 million in the past three years maintaining and improving the relatively short Mitchelstown to Cahir stretch, which accommodates more than 11,000 vehicles every day.

But a local resident yesterday disputed a call by Fine Gael’s Tom Hayes for a proposed dual carriageway- part motorway scheme, currently at a preliminary stage of planning, to be brought forward.