"Someone is going to be killed" in Laois village
Kerr's Corner in Timahoe pictured in 2022, when the verge was planted with wildflowers by Colm McEvoy Pitch Maintenance. Photo: Colm McEvoy
A SERIES of crashes at a notorious junction in a Laois village has prompted an appeal for ramps to be installed.
Cllr Paschal McEvoy made the appeal at a council meeting, when he highlighted a number of recent accidents at Kerr’s Corner in Timahoe.
“There was another one in the past two weeks and someone is going to be killed there,” he told a meeting of Graiguecullen-Portarlington municipal district on 17 September.
The Stradbally councillor, who is a native of Timahoe, said he was “baffled” why drivers persistently failed to stop at the junction.
He said: “People are just not stopping at the Stop sign. They just drive straight through. It is a black spot. I know how dangerous it is because I’m from the area but they just go straight through, even though there’s a Stop sign.”
Cllr McEvoy’s proposal that Laois Co Council install ramps at Kerr’s Corner was supported by Cllr Pádraig Fleming, who said that he had seen some of the accidents himself.
In a written response from the council’s roads department, an official confirmed that road design staff would meet Cllr Paschal McEvoy at the site and added: ‘All traffic calming measures, including additional signage, line marking and ramps, will be assessed.’
Now the location of The Corner Shop, the junction is known as Kerr’s Corner after the shop that was originally run by the Kerr family for three generations, from 1888 until 2011.
