Coroner wants remembrance day for road victims

A CORONER yesterday suggested that white, timber crosses be erected at the scenes of all fatal traffic accidents on All Souls Day, each year.

“Having a day set aside for this might create more awareness and help stop the tragic carnage,” coroner Terence Casey told an inquest, in Killarney, into the death of factory worker Joss O’Brien, 21, from Castlemaine, Co Kerry.

The inquest heard that Mr O’Brien’s Toyota Corolla collided with an oncoming BMW, driven by a Polish woman, Anna Piociennit, at around midnight on October 3 last.