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Gardaí has asked for witnesses following the death of an elderly man on the main Cork-Limerick Road through Charleville on Wednesday.
The man, locally named Eddie Goggin (83) of Beech Avenue, Brindle Hill in Charleville, was crossing Main Street in the city just before 11 a.m. Wednesday when he was hit by a truck.
Mr. Goggin was crossing stopped traffic and less than 20 yards from a crosswalk when traffic began to move and he was fatally injured.
Emergency services were alerted and paramedics and Charleville Fire Brigade personnel rushed to the scene and worked to save Mr. Goggin, but he was pronounced dead at the scene.
Gardaí cordoned off the scene when the body of Mr. Goggin, survived by his wife and adult children, was transferred to Cork University Hospital for a post-mortem examination.
The road was closed and detours were established for more than eight hours while a Garda forensic accident investigator conducted a technical examination of the scene to try to establish what happened.
The truck driver, a 58-year-old man from the north side of Cork City, was not injured in the collision, but was badly shaken and treated on the spot by paramedics for shock.
Gardaí de Charleville began collecting CCTV images from commercial premises in the city center and examining the images to see if any of their cameras captured the incident.
And they have also appealed to witnesses, including Main Street motorists who might have dash cam footage, to contact them at the Charleville Garda station at 063-21770.
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