Woman launches road safety campaign after narrow miss on Cork road

Ella Goddin has launched a GoFundMe campaign to buy dash-cams for people living along the R585 to document the movement of heavy goods vehicles there

Emergency services working to free the injured driver from the car following the crash on the R585 on August 3.

A woman who narrowly avoided a head-on collision with a truck in which a man and woman were seriously injured has launched a road safety campaign.

Ella Goddin, who lives near Dunmanway in West Cork, said the combination of poor road design, high speeds and lack of mobile coverage in rural areas is “a recipe for disaster”.