Council is silent on Bronagh English crash as they decline to issue a statement
Bereaved English family seeks answers from Tipperary County Council
Tipperary County Council has not responded to issues raised by a bereaved family after a fatal car crash.
In last week’s The Nationalist the parents of Bronagh English, who lost her life in a single car crash at Kilmoyler Bridge last April, called on the authority to provide answers to the questions they raised.
Last week and again this week Tipperary County Council was asked to provide a statement on the matter but declined to do so.
The bereaved parents of 18-year-old Bronagh English, said that they will be forever haunted by the belief that their daughter should be alive today.
They believe their daughter Bronagh would be alive if measures had been taken to improve the condition of the road at Kilmoyler and if signage to warn of the dangers of that black spot had been in place.
The accident happened as Bronagh was travelling alone, returning home after dropping a friend off at their house, on Thursday, April 24, earlier this year, shortly after 10pm.
The English family is now on a mission to get answers as to why the road was left in such a poor condition despite the series of accidents on that road, why there were no warning signs erected given the level of danger involved, and why a broken wall on the bridge had not been fixed.
An independent engineer’s report carried out after the accident has listed seven critical items concerning the road at Kilmoyler Bridge.
“If any one of those seven had been solved by Tipperary County Council, our daughter would be with us.
“It would have been a minor incident; she could have had a broken leg or something.
“It would have been a very minor incident if any of those seven were in place.
“One cone sitting on the broken wall would indicate it was a 90-degree turn and show you had to slow down. We need to understand how it happened, how it got left for so long.
“There have been multiple accidents on that stretch of road; it is a black spot,” said her father, Michael.
“How can this exist in this day and age?
“This is Third World stuff,” said Michael English.
The discovery process they had embarked upon was needed to find answers, said Michael.
They also wanted to find out whether local public representatives had highlighted the road after the various accidents at the bridge and what was done in response.
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They wanted to know why there were no signs indicating there was a 90-degree turn, there were no slow down signs, and no indication there was a yield junction, no indication of the speed limit and why was there a 60km/h speed limit in place when it should have been half that, and all on a stretch of road coming up to a bridge and why was the wall on the bridge not fixed.