Devastating loss of family on our roads highlights urgency

Transport Infrastructure Ireland has 55 roads projects in 23 counties but securing funding for them is just part of the process in ensuring the proposals move from the planning stage to work beginning on the ground, writes Caroline O’Doherty.

The crash that devastated the Wilson family on September 11 stunned even those who predicted that something so awful was bound to happen.

Marcella Wilson, a mother of four from Belmullet, Co Mayo; her youngest son, Sean, aged seven, and his grandmother and Marcella’s mother, Mary Ann, were all killed when their car collided with a lorry after they pulled out on to the N17 near Claremorris on their way to a hospital appointment.