Dozens of crashes could be avoided by upgrading tourist road, hearing told

Dozens of road crashes could be avoided by upgrading a substandard road in Co Kerry, an oral hearing was told yesterday.

Multiple entrances and junctions added to the dangers of the winding road from Tralee to Dingle, where accident rates are higher than the national average.

Project manager for the planned upgrading of the N86, Dara Walsh told the Bord Pleanála hearing a recent review found “the pattern of a high incidence of single vehicle and head-on collisions was indicative of a narrow road with poor alignment, generally driven at high vehicle speeds”.