Speed limit of 100km at pedestrian crossing ‘incomprehensible’, inquest hears

said it was “incomprehensible” to him that a pedestrian crossing designed for “wheelchair users, children, the visually impaired” was governed by a 100km per hour speed limit., was killed on the N22 while walking towards her mother’s car at Glenflesk village, Killarney on December 1st, 2017.

Garda O’ Brien found a metal road sign, comprising a pole and blue disc at torso height, in place to guide motorists away from the footpath at the location had obscured views of the road. The pedestrian was obscured from the car by the sign, and the car was obscured from the pedestrian by the same sign. The cctv showed Ms Crowley looking to her left, the Killarney side, as she crossed the road but it did not appear she looked to her right.

In her deposition, read by Garda Supt Flor Murphy, Grace Crowley, who was visibly upset in the stand, told how she had gone by bus from Glenflesk to Cork that morning to visit her husband Denis at CUH and returned to Killarney by bus. Denise had an assignment to hand in at UCC and took a later bus home.Ms Crowley met her sister in Killarney and did some shopping. As they made their way to Glenflesk church to collect her car, they noticed something black on the road.

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