Pensioner killed by lorry in city centre accident

A 79-YEAR-OLD woman was killed in a horrific accident yesterday when she was crushed underneath a lorry.

The woman, named locally as Cecelia ‘Cissie’ Yelverton, was driven to Cork city centre by a friend and was doing some shopping when the accident happened, shortly after 11.30am.

She started to walk across St Patrick Street when traffic was stopped and she was directly in front of a large privately run refuse truck when it started to move again.