Non-national woman among weekend’s road deaths

A YOUNG non-national woman was one of two people who died in separate road accidents yesterday.

The death of the 21-year-old brought to five the number of people killed over the Bank Holiday weekend.

She was a passenger in a car that went out of control and crashed into a tree at Scatternagh, on the Kilmoon Road near Duleek, Co Meath. No other vehicles were involved in the accident which occurred shortly after midday.

The driver of the car, a man in his 30s, was seriously injured. He was taken to Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital in Drogheda. Gardaí said the name of the deceased was being withheld until all relatives were informed.

Earlier yesterday, a car driver died and two passengers were seriously injured after a collision with a truck in Co Westmeath. The male driver was not named.

The driver of the truck was unhurt in the accident at Ballinalack on the N4 Mullingar-Longford road around 7.15am. The male and female occupants of the car were taken to the Longford-Westmeath Hospital in Mullingar.

Meanwhile, a 52-year-old mother-of-three, who died in a crash near Bandon, Co Cork, on Friday, will be laid to rest today. She was Goretti Le Blanc from Innishannon. The car she was driving was involved in a collision with a jeep.

She was one of three people who died in separate traffic accidents on Friday.

The others were Sarah Kiely, aged 73, from Carrick-on-Suir, Co Tipperary, and Bartholomew (Bertie) Moynihan, aged 77, from Coole, Fermoy, Co Cork.

Ms Kiely was the driver of a car involved in a crash on the Waterford to Clonmel Road near Piltown in Co Kilkenny.

Gardaí in Fermoy are continuing to investigate the accident in which Mr Moynihan died. He was driving a vehicle involved in a five-car collision at Corrin, near the north Cork town on Friday afternoon.