Major crash on Wilkin St ?

Faq

Girlfriends mother saw what look to be a crashed car in the wall

jo06555

Faq wrote: »

Girlfriends mother saw what look to be a crashed car in the wall

Where's Wilkins St?? Hope it not too bad.

seanybiker

jo06555 wrote: »

Where's Wilkins St?? Hope it not too bad.

Dunno that street either lol

ziedth

jo06555 wrote: »

Where's Wilkins St?? Hope it not too bad.

It's down past the people park IIRC. hope everything is alright.

Faq

http://maps.google.ie/maps?q=Wilkin+St&ll=52.251578,-7.102143&spn=0.001355,0.003484&hnear=Wilkin+St,+Waterford,+County+Waterford&gl=ie&t=h&z=19&vpsrc=6

wellboytoo

would hardly think you could have a Major crash on what effectively is a one lane street that traffic has to give way to oncoming traffic

Faq

she said it was hard to see might go have a look to be sure

wellboytoo

your girlfriends Mother saw a crash but it was hard to see, and you title it major crash, do you work for the Sun?

Amzie

wellboytoo wrote: »

would hardly think you could have a Major crash on what effectively is a one lane street that traffic has to give way to oncoming traffic

Possibly one person didn't give way!! Some people don't have patience on that street it's really annoying! Hope the people involved are ok!!

Faq

Probably jumped the gun saying it was major but still there was a lot of lights around hopefully no injury's

hardybuck

There is definitely a case for making Wilkins St one way only.

deisemum

I hope whoever was in the crash are ok.

It's mad on that road especially around 2.30pm when a number of the primary schools are coming out around the same time. The school bus parked on the corner doesn't help.

billythepig

jo06555 wrote: »

Where's Wilkins St?? Hope it not too bad.

if you go up johns hill from the mansion house pub, you take your 1st turn left onto lower newtown and then take your 2nd turn right, now your on wilkin street

seanybiker

One of the girls I know living up that way said one car hit the wall and another car crashed into the back of it. She was passing as the ambulance arrived and said the one in the wall seemed to be crumpled.

gscully

There was a major crash alright, but it wasn't on the street you mention. I was coming home from the hospital around 7:30pm and as I passed along Passage Road behind Newtown School, there were Garda and Ambulance lights flashing up ahead. It looks like a car came down St Patricks Way (the downhill road between the top of The Folly and Passage Road) too fast and hit another car from behind sending it across Passage Road and into the rear wall of the school. That was my interpretation anyway. It looked nasty and both cars were a mess. Hopefully all concerned are ok, but if it happened as I described, the passengers in the first car will have done well to escape with minor injury.

mozattack

gscully wrote: »

There was a major crash alright, but it wasn't on the street you mention. I was coming home from the hospital around 7:30pm and as I passed along Passage Road behind Newtown School, there were Garda and Ambulance lights flashing up ahead. It looks like a car came down St Patricks Way (the downhill road between the top of The Folly and Passage Road) too fast and hit another car from behind sending it across Passage Road and into the rear wall of the school. That was my interpretation anyway. It looked nasty and both cars were a mess. Hopefully all concerned are ok, but if it happened as I described, the passengers in the first car will have done well to escape with minor injury.

I passed at 19.00 and attest to what is being said above.

ikeano29

Yeah its a dangerous part of the road there coming down to the lights on St Patricks Way. If someones brakes are not the best and on a wet road it can be a dangerous spot alright and also its a blind spot before you get to the hill.

Maybe the gatso vans would be better suited along that stretch of road from the folly on and similar DANGEROUS roads around the city instead of the duel carriage in ferrybank, ballytruckle rd, the ring road etc.
They might not make as much money but would possibly be saving bad accidents and lives but i suppose saving lives does'nt pay the bills.:mad:

Heathen

ikeano29 wrote: »

Yeah its a dangerous part of the road there coming down to the lights on St Patricks Way. If someones brakes are not the best and on a wet road it can be a dangerous spot alright and also its a blind spot before you get to the hill.

Maybe the gatso vans would be better suited along that stretch of road from the folly on and similar DANGEROUS roads around the city instead of the duel carriage in ferrybank, ballytruckle rd, the ring road etc.
They might not make as much money but would possibly be saving bad accidents and lives but i suppose saving lives does'nt pay the bills.:mad:

And that is the exact reason they wont put it there...

Money generators is all they are..

H