{"id":178849,"date":"2025-12-07T06:27:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-07T06:27:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/178849\/"},"modified":"2025-12-07T06:27:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-07T06:27:09","slug":"call-for-safety-review-at-a-limerick-junction-after-collisions-spark-concern-among-locals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/178849\/","title":{"rendered":"Call for safety review at a Limerick junction after collisions spark concern among locals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"247\" data-end=\"439\">A FORMAL safety review has been requested for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.limerickleader.ie\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Sherins Cross, Dromin near Kilmallock<\/a> after a number of serious collisions at the busy rural junction prompted fresh concern among councillors and residents.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"441\" data-end=\"709\">At the November meeting of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.limerickleader.ie\/section\/309\/politics\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Cappamore\u2013Kilmallock Municipal District<\/a>, Cllr PJ Carey supported a joint motion from himself and Cllr Greg Conway calling for an official inspection of the crossroads to determine what measures are needed to make the area safer.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"711\" data-end=\"1133\">Speaking after the meeting, Cllr Carey said the situation has escalated in recent weeks. \u201cThere was a bad crash two or three weeks ago,\u201d he explained.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"711\" data-end=\"1133\">\u201cAn elderly woman coming out of Dromin, turning for Kilmallock, was hit by a driver travelling from Kilmallock to Bruff. The sightlines are poor enough in fairness. There\u2019s no suggestion the man was speeding or doing anything wrong it\u2019s just a dangerous junction.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"711\" data-end=\"1133\">Read More:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.limerickleader.ie\/news\/community\/1951425\/new-lease-of-life-for-landmark-building-on-the-banks-of-the-river-shannon.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">New lease of life for landmark building on the banks of the River Shannon<\/a><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1135\" data-end=\"1359\">Cllr Carey said locals regularly report difficulty exiting the crossroads safely. \u201cYou wouldn&#8217;t want to be hanging about you literally have a second or two to get out of there\u201d\u00a0.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1361\" data-end=\"1638\">The area is also heavily used by school buses, which pick up children at the junction each morning, increasing the urgency for safety improvements.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1640\" data-end=\"2009\">While major infrastructural works would require significant funding, Cllr Carey said he is prepared to allocate General Municipal Allocation (GMA) funding to begin traffic-calming measures if necessary. \u201cYou\u2019re never going to get a ramp on a busy road like that,\u201d he said. \u201cBut you can slow people down. We\u2019ll work together to put money towards it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2011\" data-end=\"2204\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">The motion will be brought forward at the district\u2019s next meeting, where councillors hope an inspection will set in motion a plan to finally address long-standing safety fears at Sherins Cross.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2011\" data-end=\"2204\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">Funded by the Local Democracy Reporting Scheme<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A FORMAL safety review has been requested for Sherins Cross, Dromin near Kilmallock after a number of serious&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":178850,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,4588,1396,14563,43,16206],"class_list":["post-178849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-kilmallock","tag-limerick","tag-limerick-city-and-county-council","tag-news","tag-roads"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178849","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178849"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178849\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/178850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}