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There has been a significant surge in incidents at level crossings involving road users so far this year, according to Iarnród Éireann.

A delegation of residents living near a railway crossing at Kilnageer - between the villages of Breaffy and Belcarra - attended the June meeting of the Castlebar Municipal District of Mayo County Council this week to appeal to the councillors to support their calls for a full-time solution to the railway crossing - where a serious accident occurred between a train and car on Wednesday, April 29.

A 59-year-old Belcarra man’s dash across the line at an unmanned railway crossing landed him before the district court this week.

Two unmanned rail crossings in Mayo are the most dangerous in the country, recording between them more than 40 per cent of all the serious ‘near misses’ between trains and road users nationally.

Iarnród Éireann (Irish Rail) has appealed to motorists in rural areas to take extreme care at unmanned railway crossings after a postman had a miracle escape when a train struck his van near Ballyvary on Wednesday morning.

A Kilkelly woman was fined €250 and ordered to pay €250 costs when she pleaded guilty of failure to shut a level crossing gate.