There was a woman knocked down around the corner from my current abode, on Tuesday night at 6.35pm. She was 90 years old, on the way home from mass. She was a friend of my grandmother. These are the facts.
The road she was crossing is a wide one, but one with no pedestrian crossing. It's often used as a rat run, being in a residential area, but parallel to the main Drumcondra Road.
She was hit by a car. She died.
My presumption is that the driver was on the way home from work, using the road as a rat run. The road is wide, and cars often turn into it fast, knowing there is no tight cornering to be done. I presume the driver turned fast into the corner, and could not stop before hitting this woman. Which means that the driver was going too fast.
Why would someone drive fast? To get home from work quicker.
So a woman was killed, because somebody else wanted to get home from work quicker.
The driver is likely traumatised by the event.
I wonder if any charges will be pressed.
The road she was crossing is a wide one, but one with no pedestrian crossing. It's often used as a rat run, being in a residential area, but parallel to the main Drumcondra Road.
She was hit by a car. She died.
My presumption is that the driver was on the way home from work, using the road as a rat run. The road is wide, and cars often turn into it fast, knowing there is no tight cornering to be done. I presume the driver turned fast into the corner, and could not stop before hitting this woman. Which means that the driver was going too fast.
Why would someone drive fast? To get home from work quicker.
So a woman was killed, because somebody else wanted to get home from work quicker.
The driver is likely traumatised by the event.
I wonder if any charges will be pressed.
