Residents want speeding stopped in Killincarrig

December 1983

Residents in the village of Killincarrig are up in arms about cars speeding through the village despite the fact that there is a 30 mile an hour speed limit.

This weekend there were two crashes in the village. In the first a car travelling from Greystones ran into a car parked outside a house. Luckily, neither of the two men in the parked car or the driver were seriously injured. Shortly after that, another car finished in a hedge.

Mrs Frances Sutton says there have been seven accidents in the past few months and she says that most cars going through are travelling too fast.

She and her neighbours are all of the opinion that it is only a matter of time until there is a fatal accident at the cross.

Already this year she had a car come through her garden railing and a young person catapult through the back window of the car into her garden.

Several others in the locality also have had railings broken.

Mrs O’Mahoney, who lives at the other end of the row of houses in the village, says they have been begging for years for something to be done. She is appalled at the traffic and the speed. She has a young family and says she and her husband are always shouting at the children to ‘watch the road and be careful’. She spoke, too, about the broken railings and missing gates. Her husband Tommy O’Mahoney, a fireman, asked why it was that private areas have ‘Children at Play’ caution signs up, yet this death trap of a road has no signs at all. He said that all of the residents find getting their cars in and out of their gates nerve racking. He also said that he often loses valuable minute3s trying to clear his gateway when called to a fire.

Greystones Civic Association say they have been on to Wicklow County Council asking for additional speed limit signs and an accident black spot notice and have been told these will be provided. They are also to ask the gardai to exercise increased vigilance in this area. The gardai say they do carry out speed checks there as in other areas of the town. It is a question of time and man power, but they hope to have more speed traps out in the near future.