The family’s roadworks investigation
Lethal road works
The family’s description and questions
Factual record. No finding of causation or responsibility is made here.
Roadworks walkthrough
This 76-second silent, captioned evidence film combines family photographs with an eight-second walkthrough excerpt. It examines the bank, pipe and road-edge questions without treating later images as proof of the collision-night condition.
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[00:00:00.000–00:00:08.000] Lethal road works
The family’s description and questions
Killardry Bridge: what condition was the road left in?
Source: family photograph, 1 May 2025; later context, not collision-night evidence.
[00:00:08.000–00:00:18.000] Left-hand roadside excavation
Family photograph: 1 May 2025.
The exposed bank and roadside excavation are on the left in this view.
This is seven days after Bronagh’s collision—not that night.
Source: family photograph, 1 May 2025; later context, not collision-night evidence.
[00:00:18.000–00:00:28.000] A closer look at the road edge
Exposed soil, loose material and vegetation.
What was present before the collision on 24 April?
Dated work records and scene evidence are needed.
Source: family photograph, 1 May 2025; later context, not collision-night evidence.
[00:00:28.000–00:00:36.000] Family walkthrough: 1 May 2025
Family walkthrough: 1 May 2025, later context.
The blue pipe opening is on the RIGHT, not LEFT.
Vehicle obscured for privacy.
Source: family walkthrough, 1 May 2025; later context, not collision-night evidence.
[00:00:36.000–00:00:46.000] What the dates show
A five-day grass-growth estimate is not a dated works record.
The photographs do not establish that work happened on 24 April.
We want the actual work dates, site diaries and inspections.
Source: family photograph, 1 May 2025; later context, not collision-night evidence.
[00:00:46.000–00:00:56.000] Rainfall context
Toureen recorded 21.5 mm over a 24-hour observation window.
10 am 24 April to 10 am 25 April 2025, Irish time.
That includes rain after the collision; the gauge is not at the bridge.
Source: Met Éireann Toureen observation record, 24–25 April 2025.
[00:00:56.000–00:01:06.000] Site-management questions
How was runoff managed? Was the excavation guarded?
What signs and inspections were in place?
The webpage compares the evidence with official roadworks guidance.
Sources: family photographs, 1 May 2025; official roadworks guidance.
[00:01:06.000–00:01:16.000] The bank. The drain. The bend. The bridge.
Read the evidence and the unanswered questions:
killardrybridge.com
/roadworks/
Factual record. No finding of causation or responsibility is made here.
Sources: family photographs, 1 May 2025; Met Éireann; official roadworks guidance.
The accepted excerpt
The accepted eight-second excerpt is silent and shows the blue pipe or open mouth at the right edge of the later family walkthrough. The vehicle envelope is obscured for privacy.
This is later family media. It records what is visible in that excerpt; it does not establish the collision-night condition, the date of any works or the function of the visible pipe by itself.
Reading the footage
- Treat the right-side pipe or open mouth as a visible feature of the recorded view.
- Keep the vehicle privacy mask and the absence of audio explicit.
- Separate the later walkthrough from the missing dated works record.
- Read the rainfall window and the seven-day calendar interval as separate source questions.
- Keep the neutral scope note and open questions alongside the media.
Factual record. No finding of causation or responsibility is made here.