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N4 closed near Mullingar (truck vs 4 cars) - pic

  • 07-04-2010 4:53pm
    #1
    mullingar
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    Here you go:

    I have no idea what happened.

    Thankfully nobody died, truck driver is in a serious condition.


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  • #2
    Martron
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    typical county coucil...... cant get the road gritted in the winter and the second the weatrher heats up they go over board


  • #3
    mullingar
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    Its actually grain!

    Trail goes back for about 300 meters.


  • #4
    Mc Love
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    Anyone know how the accident happened?


  • #5
    Berty
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    From RTE

    http://www.rte.ie/news/2010/0407/rta.html
    RTE News wrote:
    Locals said a truck, which was travelling from Dublin towards the west, went out of control and crossed over to the other side of the road just after passing junction 11 on the Mullingar bypass.

    It then collided with another truck heading in the opposite direction.

    Three more cars were struck as the two vehicles tried to stop.

    The driver of the west-bound truck was trapped in his vehicle for almost an hour and was seriously injured.

    He is now in a critical condition at the Midland Regional Hospital.


  • #6
    Berty
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    Actually how on a Motorway does he collide with another truck going the other way unless he managed to break through the crash barrier or go straight over it :confused:


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  • #7
    Delta Kilo
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    It didnt happen on a Motorway...


  • #8
    L1011
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    If you look at the pic it was actually on the undivided section at the far west of the bypass; I had a thread in Infrastructure about this before the pic went up asking much the same.

    The median barriers on older DCs like the Mullingar BP won't stop a truck anyway - but there wasn't one at this point.


  • #9
    Berty
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    Delta Kilo wrote: »
    It didnt happen on a Motorway...


    It looks like a DC.


  • #10
    Stinicker
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    mullingar wrote: »
    Here you go:

    I have no idea what happened.

    Thankfully nobody died, truck driver is in a serious condition.

    Were you in a Helicopter taking that pic Mullingar?


  • #11
    L1011
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 71,184 ✭✭✭✭L1011


    Stinicker wrote: »
    Were you in a Helicopter taking that pic Mullingar?

    I believe theres an overbridge right beside the incident site.


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