Jury calls for warning signs at dangerous bend after fatal head-on collision
Cork city coroner Dr Myra Cullinane said she would write to Cork County Council about the need for signs on a wide-sweeping bend on Carr’s Hill, the main primary road between Douglas and Carrigaline in Cork. A jury of five women and two men made the recommendation after hearing evidence in relation to the death of Arthur O’Connor, 59, from Raffeen Hill, Monkstown, Co Cork.
Mr O’Connor died on Wednesday, January 4, 2006, when the blue Mazda 626 he was driving veered across a continuous white line and collided head-on with a 40ft articulated truck on the bend close to the cemetery on Carr’s Hill. The front of the car was destroyed in the impact, its bodywork was warped and it came to rest almost 95ft from the point of impact, the inquest was told.
