Baby girl survives crash as mother dies

A SIX-MONTH-OLD girl yesterday survived a horror smash in which her mother died.

Tragedy struck at lunchtime yesterday when the baby and her mum were travelling on the Graiguenamanagh to Goresbridge road in Co Kilkenny. Their car hit a truck coming in the opposite direction at Mountloftus. Gardaí and ambulance services rushed to the scene.

The woman was pronounced dead a short time later at St Luke’s Hospital in Kilkenny city. She is from Gowran.