Poignant project remembers road victims

THE 253 victims of the carnage on Irish roads so far this year have been remembered in a poignant, shock-provoking project involving dozens of young people and a massive collection of white-painted crosses.

The make-shift graveyard filled with white crosses, one for each of the 253 plus people who have died on Ireland’s roads since the start of the year, was set up by members of the Ballybeg Community Education Project on the edge of Waterford city yesterday afternoon.

Project organiser, Glenn Lynch, said the graveyard tribute was spurred by a front page of the Irish Examiner several months ago which featured the names and photographs of the first one hundred people who died on Irish roads.