Pensioner arrested in connection with fatal accident

A MAN in his 70s was arrested yesterday by gardaí investigating a fatal accident that claimed the life of a 19-year-old trainee hairdresser.

Sian Roberts died after her Ford Ka was involved in a collision on the Glanmire bypass in Co Cork on January 22 last.

She had been driving home from work at Jeff Devine’s hairdressing college and salon on Academy Street in Cork city when the accident occurred.