Sir, - Thankfully, no one died in the recent accident in the Chapelizod bypass. However, some years ago an English tourist was killed on the Conyngham Road when his car struck a horse which was straying on that road.
Before the Chapelizod bypass was built the Conyngham Road was the main road to the west and runs parallel to the bypass.
In the years since, nothing was done to curb horses straying onto busy roads. Is it surely now time that steps were taken to eliminate this deadly menace.
I have seen stray horses on the airport motorway, on the M50, on the Lucan bypass, the Chapelizod bypass, Rochestown Avenue and the Bray road. To suggest that straying horses is limited to one area is quite misleading.
I am sure other readers have regularly come across straying horses on other main roads in the State. - Yours, etc.,
Knockmaroon Hill, Dublin 20.