Jury recommends extra safety mirrors on all heavy goods trucks

A JURY recommended extra safety mirrors be made compulsory on all trucks after an 80-year-old pedestrian was the fifth person to be killed in one area of Dublin because of blind spots in heavy goods vehicles.

Jury recommends extra safety mirrors on all heavy goods trucks

The inquest into the death of William Keating, from Kylemore Road, Ballyfermot, Dublin, heard in the past year five pedestrians and cyclists met their deaths in the Dublin north central area after truck drivers failed to see them.

The jury recommended extra safety mirrors and sensors on the front of heavy goods vehicles be made compulsory to deal with the blindspots.

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