Child orphaned as father killed in crash with lorry

A NINE-YEAR-OLD girl was orphaned yesterday when her father was killed in a traffic accident just 18 months after her mother died in a crash.

Child orphaned as father killed in crash with lorry
Thu, 05 Jun, 2003 - 01:00
Kathryn Hayes and Cian McCormack

A woman in her 50s was killed in a separate incident, bringing the number of people killed on Irish roads to 142 this year, 18 fewer than at the same time in 2002.

Franz Blazer, aged 38, died instantly when the car he was driving was involved in a head-on collision with an articulated lorry in Co Tipperary.

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