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[Article] Inquest returns accidental death verdict

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  • 14-06-2006 8:08pm
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    Victor
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    I can't find the orginal thread, but the original story is here: http://www.rte.ie/news/2005/0915/rta.html

    http://www.rte.ie/news/2006/0614/bus.html
    Inquest returns accidental death verdict
    14 June 2006 16:53

    An inquest into the death of a woman who died after being hit by a bus in Dublin last year has returned a verdict of accidental death.

    Maree Buckland, originally from Sligo but with an address in Atherstone in Warwickshire died in St James's Hospital one week after being struck.

    The driver of the bus which struck and fatally injured the 60-year-old said that it was common for people using the junction in question to cross the road when the pedestrian lights were red.
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    John Loughrey, a driver with Dublin Bus, said that as he approached the O'Connell Street junction at approximately 30km/h, two women walked out of the crowd on the left-hand side.

    He told the inquest that they were talking to each other as they began to cross the road, and he was unable to stop the bus in time. The light was green for vehicle traffic when the accident occurred.

    The inquest also heard from a garda expert on accident reconstruction who said that warnings to pedestrians that they were approaching a road crossing were not immediately apparent at eye level.

    Garda Edward Davin said a suggestion of extra signage at the crossing had value.

    Witnesses also said that the colour, surface and level of the road at the crossing were the same as the footpath.

    The jury of three men and three women returned the verdict of accidental death at the direction of the Dublin City Coroner Dr Brian Farrell.

    The jury also recommended that the junction where the accident took place be re-evaluated.

    Dublin City Council says it will take on board recommendations made by the jury. The council says no work has been carried out at the junction concerned directly as a result of last September's accident. But it says routine work is carried out there on an ongoing basis.

    Extending his sympathy to the family, the coroner said on his own behalf and that of Dublin citizens that he deplored that fact that Mrs Buckland's belongings had been stolen from the scene of the accident.


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