Traffic chaos after oil tanker crash leaves three injured

PART of the busy Mallow to Killarney road had to be closed for more than five hours when an oil tanker overturned in a crash with a car yesterday morning.

The driver of the tanker and the two women travelling in the car avoided life-threatening injuries in the crash about eight kilometres outside Kanturk.

Emergency services were called to the scene at around 11am and all three were taken by ambulance to Cork University Hospital.