Irish Taxi Forum
Public Area => Taxi Talk => Topic started by: Dr. Martin Gooter Bling on October 11, 2017, 05:27:36 pm
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http://www.irishexaminer.com/breakingnews/ireland/tourist-was-fatally-injured-after-he-stumbled-and-fell-in-front-of-passing-taxi-inquest-hears-809472.html (http://www.irishexaminer.com/breakingnews/ireland/tourist-was-fatally-injured-after-he-stumbled-and-fell-in-front-of-passing-taxi-inquest-hears-809472.html)
Wednesday, October 11, 2017 - 03:26 pm
by Louise Roseingrave
A tourist was walking home from a pub with friends when he stumbled and fell in front of a passing taxi, an inquest heard.
William Campbell (47) was visiting from Canada he was struck and killed on the Shelbourne Road in Dublin.
He died of head and abdominal injuries after he was run over by the taxi shortly after midnight on October 9, 2016.
Mr Campbell from Edmonton, Alberta, Canada was visiting Ireland with a group of ten including his wife Terri-Lynn Campbell.
The group were spending two days in Dublin at Ariel House on Landsdowne Road and had visited the Guinness Store House before eating dinner at a city centre pub on the day of his death.
Later that night, Mr Campbell and two friends left a pub on Bath Avenue in Dublin 4 and turned onto Shelbourne Road minutes before he was struck. In CCTV footage of the group leaving the pub, Mr Campbell appeared to be ‘stumbling’ and was ‘unsteady on his feet’ according to investigating Garda Vicky Montgomery.
The man's friend David Anderson was walking alongside him when he fell at around 12.15am.
“William appeared to lose his footing on an uneven path, he stumbled and fell out onto the road. He rolled forward ...a taxi came and rolled over him. It all happened in an instant,” Mr Anderson said. A second friend, Matthew Grendall said the group had not been drinking heavily and described his friend as sober.
“One second he was beside me, the next he was out on the road. Everything happened in a split second,” Mr Grendall said.
Taxi driver Ivaylo Martinov said he saw a man fall out onto the road in front of his car from between two parked cars.
“I hit the brakes, but the car just rolled over him,” he said. Emergency services arrived within minutes, the court heard. Mr Campbell was pronounced dead at the scene at 1.18am.
The cause of death was massive cranial, abdominal and thoracic injuries due to a road traffic collision, according to a post-mortem conducted by Prof Eamon Leen.
A toxicology report found the man had a blood alcohol level of 305 milligrams per cent. Prof Leen described this as a 'severe level of intoxication.'
Forensic Collision Investigator Sergeant Paul Kearney said he was unable to say what caused Mr Campbell to fall onto the road. There was no CCTV footage of the fall or the impact with the taxi, the court heard.
Gda Montgomery said there are a number of driveways on the Shelbourne Road and the footpath is 'significantly lower' where these meet the road.
The jury at Dublin Coroner's Court returned a verdict of accidental death.
“This must have been an absolutely devastating thing to happen to your party and to the family and to all the bereaved. It was a matter of a second and it changed so many lives,” Coroner Dr Myra Cullinane.
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A toxicology report found the man had a blood alcohol level of 305 milligrams per cent. Prof Leen described this as a 'severe level of intoxication.'
A second friend, Matthew Grendall said the group had not been drinking heavily and described his friend as sober. fuckin gobshite.
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Alcohol and Driving;
The legal limit for fully-licenced drivers in Category B are:
50 milligrammes of alcohol per 100 millilitres of blood.
The legal limit for professional drivers are:
20 milligrammes of alcohol per 100 millilitres of blood.
http://alcoholireland.ie/alcohol-and-you/driving/ (http://alcoholireland.ie/alcohol-and-you/driving/)
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They should reduce the speed limit in that area to 30 Kilos/hour and, more importantly, they should start enforcing the 30 kilo/hour speed limits. The number of taxis racing around at 40-50 and higher in 30 zones is frightening. Ban Rickshaws, too. The drivers are all selling drugs and they don't obey the rules of the road. It's all great fun 'till lives are lost.
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It's hardly the drivers fault if the deceased was over Six times over the legal driving alcohol limit.
Out of respect fer the deceased I'll end my post there.
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I'm not suggesting that the driver was necessarily at fault, although drivers should expect the unexpected. Lowering the speed limit to 30 kilos/hour would have most likely saved the man's life, assuming the driver observed said limit. As noted, taxis generally break 30 kilo/hour limits with impunity up above in Dublin.
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Did they say speed was a factor in the chaps death?
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He was run over by a moving object, of course the speed at which said object was moving was a factor. It is well established that pedestrians and cyclists have a much better chance of surviving being struck by motor vehicles at 30 kilos/hour than at 50 kilos/hour hence the former limit should be adopted and enforced on any street with significant pedestrian/cyclist traffic, particularly in cases where pedestrians can reasonably be expected to be under the influence of alcohol.
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Nothing to say the driver was speeding....maybe we should all stay stationary and then when drunk pedestrians fall out on to the road into our cars we can take huge claims against them!!
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I'm not suggesting that the driver was speeding. I'm suggesting that the speed limit needs to be lowered and that we desperately need enforcement in 30 kilo/hour zones.
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I'm not suggesting that the driver was speeding. I'm suggesting that the speed limit needs to be lowered and that we desperately need enforcement in 30 kilo/hour zones.
30kph is almost stopped Rats !
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Belker the bottom line is you're supposed to be going slow enough to be able to stop in an emergency.If yer doing 50 instead of 30 it might take an extra second or two to swerve/stop safely.My reaction times aren't as fast as ten years ago so I'm guessing a 50 year old would be slower than me.The speed limits are maximum allowed limits not targets.You can get away with racing around until you hit someone then the law will be enforced.
I've had customers asking me to go faster even when I'm doing the speed limit.Sometimes if you drive smoothly the thicks in the car think yer going too slow.They're not happy unless the car is bouncing all over the road like it's been rallied.
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've had customers asking me to go faster even when I'm doing the speed limit.Sometimes if you drive smoothly the thicks in the car think yer going too slow.They're not happy unless the car is bouncing all over the road like it's been rallied
Hardly stolen!!
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I would dissagree with the 30kph limit, I think that is just too slow (unless it's in a housing estate).
A bit more enforcement of the 50kph limit would be welcome.
Taxi drivers in particular racing back in to the city after midnight to get another fare is just ridiculous,
in Cork the main roads/arteries back in to the city after midnight are like the streets of Monte Carlo
on Formula 1 day !
Personally I drive back in to town using the bus lanes at a reasonable speed and let em all pass me out.
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Cyclists and pedestrians are unlikely to be killed or seriously injured if struck at 30 kilos/hour whereas they will be at 50 kilos/hour. Hence most 50 kilo/hour limits should be reduced to 30. Why is there such a need for speed? Having motor vehicles racing around at 50 kilos/hour in built up areas is all great fun 'till lives are lost.
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Cyclists have a tendency to overtake cars travelling at 30kph.
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The speed limit should be enforced. It's not only cyclists racing around the city, take a drive down O'Connell Street some evening and you will witness millions, no more than that, thousands of taxis overtake you if you observe the limit. Enforcement is a joke. In this technological age there should be speed cameras every 350 metres on every single road in the State.
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Woman in critical condition after crash involving pedestrian and cyclist in Dublin city centre http://jrnl.ie/3661013 (http://jrnl.ie/3661013)
I wonder if the cyclist was doing over 30kph.
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I love turning down gardiner street late at night and getting all the green lights downhill to the customs house.
gives me enormous pleasure. can't take it sometimes.