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A LORRY CRASHED through a railway level crossing near Oranmore, Co Galway earlier this morning.
RTE reports that the incident occurred just as an Irish Rail passenger train was coming towards the barrier.
The train was four minutes away from the level crossing.
Luckily the train was able to stop before it reached the barrier.
Irish Rail is working to repair the crossing.
A number of train services between Galway, Limerick and Dublin have been affected by the crash.
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At first I thought it said Lowry…
Funny – so did I ……. He could do feckin’ anything !
Weird, I did too, wasn’t surprised either.
Sensationalism at it’s best!! The train would not have been able to pass through the level crossing because the signal on it’s approach to the crossing would have been red even before the lorry hit the barrier because the crossing had not been cleared for the train to come through.
And what if the truck arrived two or three minutes later? As it was, the crossing was down.
Level crossing incursions, sure they’re harmless really.
Where exactly is this sensationalism? It only said the train was approximately four minutes away, it didn’t exactly claim it was a ‘death-defying near miss’…
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