Truck ‘struck disabled man’

A wheelchair user crossing a Dublin city junction was struck by a truck and died four days later, an inquest heard. James Owens, aged 87, of Blackhorse Grove, Dublin 7, died of organ failure, sepsis, pneumonia and multiple rib fractures, Dublin Coroner’s Court heard.

Mr Owens was making his way across a junction connecting the North Circular Road to the Old Cabra Road on September 30, 2014, at around 4pm when the accident happened.

He regularly met friends at Hanlon’s pub and frequently used the pedestrian crossing at the junction, Mr Owens’s daughter Linda Mangan said. Truck driver William McKeown had delivered a consignment of eggs to Kilmainham and was returning to Co Cavan when the incident happened.