A number of local councillors have demanded new road safety measures be put in place near the site of a fatal 2024 crash.
Three people were killed in a horror crash in the village of Liscooley on the night of the 22nd of December, 2024.
The two occupants of one of the cars involved, Castlederg men Ryan Glenn, aged 25, and Gordy Galbraith, aged in his 30s, were pronounced dead at the scene.
Lifford man Samuel Hunter, who was in his 70s and travelling in the second vehicle involved, passed away four days later at Letterkenny University Hospital.
Multiple local Councillors raised concerns with the current road safety measures in place in the village today.
“We have had fatalities there and it’s a well-known black spot for speeding coming through there,” Cllr Patrick McGowan told today’s meeting of the Lifford-Stranorlar Municipal District Council.
“There’s far too much going on there at that crossroads with the petrol station and everything else. It’s ridiculous that all we ever got was one flashback sign.”
Cllr Gary Doherty echoed Cllr McGowan’s calls for road safety works to be carried out in the village, urging the Council to engage with the owners of a local filling station to assist with the management of traffic in the area.
“We (have) had fatalities there very sadly, it continues to be a concern.”
“Where most of the cars are coming and going at the minute in Liscooley is the filling station, there are a couple of things where I would like to see the Council engaging with the company on there.”
“The sign that has the prices on it – that’s too far out, in my view, because when cars are pulling out of the filling station, you have to pull out far too far to see the traffic coming.”
“If that could be moved back, even a few feet, or if the bottom of it could be made transparent so you could see the traffic coming I think that would help in that location.”
Cllr Doherty also suggested that the station could install an entry/exit system to make the traffic flow in the area smoother as well.
“A lot of the time, what’s happening is there’s not enough space for two cars to pass eachother to pass inside the filling station itself. So if you fill up with petrol or diesel, and then you pull out on the Killygordon side, if there’s a car coming down from Killygordon they sit there with their indicator on rather than going down the other side and pulling in where there’s more room.”
In response to Councillors’ queries, a representative from Donegal County Council stated that Transport Infrastructure Ireland (TII) were focusing their efforts on “high-collision locations” that have been identified on national roads, including a number in the Lifford-Stranorlar MD.
Once those works are completed, the Council representative said that the focus of TII will shift to locations such as Liscooley which have been raised by members of the Council.
Councillors demand road safety changes at site of tragic Liscooley crash was last modified: December 2nd, 2025 by Daniel Brennan
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