Student nurse killed in head-on crash

A YOUNG student nurse who was on her way to work was killed close to her home yesterday morning in a head-on collision with a cement truck.

Student nurse killed in head-on crash

Siobhán Holland, 20, from Kilbonane, Aherla, Co Cork, had left her family home to begin her second week of placement at Cork University Hospital (CUH) when the accident happened at about 7.20am near Ballincollig, on the main N22 Cork Killarney road.

She was the sixth person to die on Irish roads in the last week and her death brought to 56 the number of people killed on the roads so far this year.

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