Improved signage needed at dangerous crossroads

Cork County Council engineers have urged Transport Infrastructure Ireland (TII) to provide improved on-road and off-road warning signs at a notoriously dangerous crossroads, in advance of major works to make it safer.

A number of serious accidents have been recorded at Ballymaquirke Cross which is close to Kanturk and on the main N72 Mallow-Killarney road. The latest serious incident took place there earlier this month when two articulated lorries crashed into each other at the crossroads. One of the drivers was taken to Cork University Hospital with serious injuries.