Tragic death prompts dark clothing warning on roads

A CORONER warned people yesterday about the dangers of wearing dark clothing while walking in the dark on country roads.

Cork coroner Myra Cullinane issued the warning after an inquest into the death of Norbert Kotloneck, a 24-year-old Polish national, heard that the motorist who hit him didn’t see him as he walked to work wearing dark clothes on a dark and wet winter morning last year.

Mr Kotloneck, from Radom in Poland, had been living since last July in Ballygarvan, Co Cork.