Left as ‘roadkill’: Cork woman speaks on her ordeal as victim of a hit-and-run incident

With the grim death toll on the roads at record levels, Neil Michael talks to those directly impacted as concerns grow over a worsening trend

Olivia Keating relaxing at her home in Kinsale, Co Cork. Picture: David Keane

The last thing on Olivia Keating’s mind early one sunny morning before work was that she would be “a piece of roadkill” left for dead in a ditch.

“Nobody for one second thinks they are going to be the next victim,” she says as she reflects back on the morning that changed her life forever.