Coroner issues road tolls warning

A coroner has issued a road toll safety warning after an inquest into an horrific accident which claimed the life of a woman near a busy motorway toll plaza.

Cork City Coroner Myra Cullinane heard yesterday how Polish national Magdalena Kossowska was killed on Apr 27, 2012, when the car in which she was a passenger was crushed by a truck near the Watergrasshill toll plaza on the M8 near Cork City after the driver of the car pulled over to find change for the toll just after 6am.

Despite being parked on the hard shoulder with the hazards lights on, the car was struck from behind by the 28,000kg five-axle Scania articulated truck travelling in the same direction.