My daughter is too frightened to walk to bus stop due to speeding cars - mum
A mother living on the Kildare/Dublin border has raised concerns about speeding vehicles on her local road.
The woman, who contacted KildareNow but doesn't want to be named, claims that her daughter is too frightened to walk to her bus stop because of dangerous speeds of passing cars.
The area in question is the Brownstown / Loughtown Road in Newcastle.
The mother said: "As a resident we're finding it increasingly hard to get out of our houses in the morning between the hours of 7:00am to 9:00am.
"The volume of traffic is so high especially since the lights at Hazel hatch have become live, left waiting for a break in the traffic which could be 5-10 minutes or longer.
"Drivers coming from the Celbridge direction have no concern for us. The speed limit on the road is 60kph but most are in excess of 80kph and much higher while dangerously tail gating.
"It’s got to a stage I now have to drop my daughter to the bus stop circa 100 meters away due to the many near collisions that she has encountered leaving her too frightened to walk her own road.
"Drivers beeping the horn from behind, not allowing space and almost hitting the wing mirror off her.
"She has had to jump towards the ditch due to this utmost disregard for human life.
"Most residents have been driven at, horns blown at them while speeding up just not to let the driver out to save about 10 seconds.
"Several weeks ago we had a resident crashed into while two cars/drivers over took a line of cars at 9am one morning. It was a head on collision while she was on the way home from dropping her children to school.
She added: "SlOW DOWN BEFORE YOU KILL ONE OF US............ It’s down to you as a driver to allow that car in front out that is simply trying to get to work or drop their children to school, the same as you!!!!!!! will take about an extra 2/4 seconds to do so......"