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Elaine Byrne: Car crashes are rarely accidents, so let’s stop pretending they are
We have become used to people dying regularly on Irish roads – but most collisions are preventable, and our language should reflect that
We saw the aftermath of car crashes too often in our family. Our job, as undertakers, was to help provide the dignified ritual of saying goodbye to a loved one who had died suddenly. Many Irish people are regrettably intimately aware that although the death from a car crash is sudden, the tentacles of grief become a lifelong companion.
As anyone who has been directly involved in a road fatality will tell you, including myself, ...
