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Buncrana hosts service for crash
victims
22.11.10
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WORLD Remembrance Day
for Road Traffic Victims yesterday held a special
resonance in Inishowen where the single worst crash
since records began happened earlier this year.
Road safety officers, gardai and members of the
emergency services joined victims' families and
locals for a ceremony in the Buncrana Youth Club, to
mark the day.
Among those remembered were the eight Inishowen men
who died in a two-vehicle crash at Glasmullen,
Clonmany, on July 11. |
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They were Hughie Friel,
66, from Dunaff, Urris who was driving one of the
cars. The seven young friends who died in the
horrific smash were all in the other vehicle. They
were Mark McLaughlin (21) of Ballinahone, Fahan;
Paul Doherty (19), of Ardagh, Ballyliffin; Ciaran
Sweeney (19), of Ballyliffin; PJ McLaughlin (21), of
Rockstown, Burnfoot; James McEleney (23), of
Minaduff, Clonmany; Eamon McDaid (22), of Ballymagan,
Buncrana; and Damien McLaughlin (21), of Umricam,
Buncrana. The driver of the car, from Ballymagan,
Buncrana, was the sole survivor of the accident.
Among the speakers at yesterday's event were young
men from the county who escaped death in crashes but
who now live with horrific physical and emotional
scars.
Nineteen people have died so far this year on Co
Donegal roads out of a national total of 197. Last
year, 240 people died on the country's roads - a
record low.
Meanwhile, more than 22,800 people have lost their
lives on the State's roads since records began. |
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