Cork County Council imposes laws on roadside crash tributes

The new policy is to be introduced primarily to make it safer for relatives to visit the sites.

Major floral tributes, soft toys, glass and illuminations are to be banned from roadside memorials to loved ones who died in car crashes in County Cork.

Major floral tributes, soft toys, glass and illuminations are to be banned from roadside memorials to loved ones who died in car crashes in County Cork.

In future all grieving families will have to apply to the local authority to get permission to erect such monuments.