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Dublin road crash

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  • 14-12-2007 10:13pm
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    Kess73
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    Just a quick message for anyone who might be getting into the car and heading out the Dublin road from Limerick. There was a very bad crash at Daly's cross and traffic has been diverted.

    A friend has just gotten to the house and told me she was diverted to the Newport road on the way to me.


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    MarkR
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    Traffic is being diverted via birdhill from dublin, and lenihans cross from limerick for garda accident investigators etc. Just showed a clip on the news, the car was mangled.


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    Kess73
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    Just saw the News at nine, and the crash was on it. Looked awful, two dead. Daly's Cross is a deathtrap, and has been the site of god knows how many crashes down the years. Defo needs something done to help prevent this happening again. I wonder would a small roundabout work there? It would slow traffic and bring in a right of way systen there.


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    Mr E
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    The cops were only letting Castleconnell people through on the Dublin Road (and I had to take first left after roundabout)..

    Where exactly was the crash?? Traffic is nuts on a Friday, so I can't picture any cars going so fast that they'd be mangled.


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    DubLegs
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    Just saw the news - that was some hell of a bad crash. Horrible for their family and friends esp this time of year.

    I use the road regularly from Dublin (3times a month) and it is a bad stretch near Dalys cross. Wonder if this will make the council sit up and take note.


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    Kess73
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    Mr E wrote: »
    The cops were only letting Castleconnell people through on the Dublin Road (and I had to take first left after roundabout)..

    Where exactly was the crash?? Traffic is nuts on a Friday, so I can't picture any cars going so fast that they'd be mangled.


    By Daly's Cross.


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    Mr E
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    I got that, Kess. I mean where in Dalys Cross? By the petrol station? At the Castleoaks turn off? Past DC on the Dublin side?


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    phog
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    Mr E wrote: »
    I got that, Kess. I mean where in Dalys Cross? By the petrol station? At the Castleoaks turn off? Past DC on the Dublin side?

    Teletext says a mile past Daly's X.


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    Ricky91t
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    The two men involed R.I.P


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    Mr E
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    Just saw it on the news. It was a man in his 40s and a man in his 20s, believed to be from Limerick. Collided with a truck. The car was seriously destroyed.

    RIP.
    My prayers are with their families - It will be a tough christmas.


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    grumpypaddy
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    the accident happened about a mile past dalys cross on the Birdhill side. It is at the area where there is a slow lane and a fast lane going up the hill on the dublin direction, there is an entrance to a sand pit or a quarry on the right hand side near it i think as you go outbound.


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    sosulio
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    grumpypaddy wrote: »
    the accident happened about a mile past dalys cross on the Birdhill side. It is at the area where there is a slow lane and a fast lane going up the hill on the dublin direction, there is an entrance to a sand pit or a quarry on the right hand side near it i think as you go outbound.
    The place is called Gouig, apparently the car drifted over the lane into an oncoming truck


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