Call for warning signs at fatal bend

A coroner has called for warning signs to be erected at a notorious bend on the main road between Killarney and Tralee where three people died in two separate accidents in “exactly the same place.”

The section of road on the main N22 Killarney to Tralee road was adequate for speeds of 100km an hour, the inquest into the death of Lukasz Hajduk, a Polish national living in Tralee was told.

The county council had examined the roadway at the request of Kerry South coroner, Terence Casey, and in a letter read by the coroner said the roadway accorded with NRA design, speed was a factor in both fatal accidents and the drivers had lost control after coming off the bend.